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Academic co-ordinator - Jonathan Gibson
Current responsibilities
As Academic Co-ordinator, Jonathan worked with academics across the country to provide advice and support for HE English departments on topics related to teaching and learning, producing resources and organizing projects and events. He was co-author with Kevin Brunton of the Subject Centre report, Staying the Course: The Experiences of Disabled Students of English and Creative Writing.
Biography
Jonathan has worked as an English lecturer at the universities of Exeter and Durham and, most recently, at Queen Mary, University of London . He has also taught part-time at University College Northampton, at The Nottingham Trent University and at Cambridge . Before joining the English Subject Centre, he was a Research Fellow at the Perdita project ( University of Warwick ), a pioneering application of computer technology to the description of early modern women’s manuscripts .
Jonathan’s research topics include early modern manuscript culture, early modern women’s writing, Elizabethan poetry and Shakespeare. He is currently working on a book on the Renaissance patronage system and an anthology of Elizabethan court writings.
Main and Recent Publications
Books
[Editor, with Victoria E. Burke], Women and Early Modern Manuscript Culture (Ashgate, 2004).
[Editor, with Derek Brewer], A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Brewer, 1997)
Contributions to books and collections
‘Tragical Histories, Tragical Tales’, in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, edited by Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford University Press, 2009).
‘Editing Perdita: Texts, Theories, Readers’, in Women Editing/Editing Women: Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism, edited by Ann Hollinshead Hurley and Chanita Goodblatt (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
[Co-author, with Gillian Wright],‘The Perdita Project: Women's Writing, Manuscript Studies and XML Tagging’, in New Technologies in Renaissance Studies, edited by William R. Bowen and Raymond G. Siemens (Iter and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008).
[Co-author, with Elizabeth Clarke], ‘Introduction’, in Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry: An Anthology (Manchester University Press, 2004), general editors Gillian Wright and Jill Seal.
[Editor], Poems by Mary Wroth, Anne Southwell and Jane Seager, in Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry: An Anthology (Manchester University Press, 2004), general editors Gillian Wright and Jill Seal.
‘Civil War in 1614: Lucan, Gorges and Ralegh’, in The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament: Literary and Historical Perspectives , edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies (Ashgate, 2003).
‘Remapping Elizabethan Court Poetry’, in An Anatomy of Tudor Literature, edited by Michael Pincombe (Ashgate, 2001).
‘Letters’, in A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, edited by Michael Hattaway (Blackwell, 2000).
Articles
‘Cherchez la femme: Mary Wroth and Shakespeare’s Sonnets’, Times Literary Supplement 5289 ( 13 August, 2004 )
‘The Legal Context of Spenser’s Daphnaïda’, Review of English Studies ns 55 (2004)
‘ Sidney ’s Arcadia s and Elizabethan Courtiership’, Essays in Criticism 52 (2002)
‘French and Italian Sources for Ralegh’s ‘Farewell false love’’, Review of English Studies ns 50 (1999)
‘King Lear and the Patronage System’, The Seventeenth Century 14 (1997)
‘Significant Space in Manuscript Letters’, The Seventeenth Century 12 (1997)
Recent conference and seminar papers
‘Transmitting Lies: The Textual History of Ralegh’s ‘Go soul, the body’s guest’’. Colloquium on Textual Transmission, Renaissance Studies Seminar, Oxford Brookes University / St. Hilda’s College, Oxford . November 2003.
‘The Physical Structure of Women’s Manuscripts’. Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, April 2003, Toronto .
‘Elizabethan Clients’ Letters and Renaissance Epistolography’. Early Modern Research Seminar, University of Reading , March 2003.
‘Describing Renaissance Manuscripts’. Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London : Reading Group Seminar. February 2003.
'Dispositio in Petitionary Letters’, The unFamiliar Letter. Birkbeck College , University of London , July 2002.
‘The Perdita Project and Renaissance Women’s Manuscripts’, Research Seminar, AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Élites and Court Cultures, University of Warwick. May 2002.
‘The Electronic Description of Renaissance Women’s Manuscripts: A Progress Report from the Perdita Project’, Panel on ‘Renaissance Literature and New Technologies’, Conference of the Renaissance Society of America . Arizona , April 2002.
‘Ralegh’s Lies’, Lyrical Settings, University of Gröningen , November 2001.
‘Standardizing the Description of Renaissance Manuscripts’, Standards in Manuscript Description, Dorset , July 2001.
‘Piety and Poetry in the Tudor Royal Family’, Poetry from Piety, University of Warwick , November 2000.
‘Katherine Parr in French’, Anglo-Continental Relations (2nd International Conference of the Tudor Symposium), University of Newcastle , September 2000.
‘Pragmatic Melancholy in Elizabethan Courtiership’, Urbane Myths: Early Modern Civil and Uncivil Discourses, University of Newcastle , July 2000.
‘Arbella Stuart’s Letters’, Women, Text and History 1500-1700 research seminar, Mansfield College , Oxford , November 1999.
