Contact Information

Office: 4107 JFSB

Phone: 422-4617

Email: nick_mason@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses English 292: British Literature 1789-Present
English 333: The British Novel
English 374: British Romanticism
English 384R: Jane Austen
English 495: Senior Seminar
Various graduate courses

Semester Schedule: Fall 2011:

IAS 201R (Second Block)
TH 5:10-6:50
B030 JFSB

Other University Assignments:
Associate Chair, English Department

Student Consultations:
By appointment

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography: Nick Mason currently holds the College of Humanities Professorship in English and serves as associate chair in the English Department. He specializes in British literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly the Romantic period. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on Romanticism, he also frequently offers classes on British literary history, the British novel, and the works of Jane Austen.

His articles have appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, Symbiosis, and several other journals of literary criticism. He has also edited three scholarly editions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary texts:

• An anthology of Romantic-era satires that appeared as Volume 1 of the five-volume series British Satire, 1785-1840 (Pickering and Chatto, 2003)
• A six-volume edition of poetry, tales, and criticism from the ground-breaking Scottish periodical Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (Pickering and Chatto, 2006)
• A classroom edition, co-edited with Matthew Mason of BYU’s History Department, of Edward Kimber’s 1754 transatlantic novel The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson (Broadview, 2008)

He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Advertising, Print, and the Shaping of British Romanticism.

Degrees: PhD, SUNY Stony Brook, 1999

Interests: Romanticism