Stephen Powell
Associate Professor, English

Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 5216 |
Email: | stephen.powell@concordia.ca |
Availability: |
Office Hours - Fall 2020 Tuesday and Thursday 1145-1215 (by Zoom) - email me for link and by appointment |

Education
BA Oberlin College
MA Indiana University
PhD University of Toronto
Research
My research focuses on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century literature and culture, principally Chaucer and romance. I am also interested in the history of the English language and readings of “the Middle Ages” in the post-medieval world, and I have published in several areas of textual criticism, including bibliography, manuscript studies, history of the book, and editorial theory.
Teaching
The diversity of my research interests is reflected in the variety of courses I have taught, at Concordia and, earlier, at the University of Guelph, TCU, and the University of Kentucky. I have taught many of Concordia’s medieval course offerings, as well as History of the English Language, and also enjoy teaching introductory courses and courses to students from other programs. I have extensive experience teaching writing, and I have even taught a course in technical writing and document design.
Selected publications
“Editing for God and Country: Middle English Exemplary Romances from Thomas Warton to Julius Zupitza.” Philological Quarterly 98 (2019): 297-327. Co-authored with David Knight-Croft.
Selected presentations
“Defamiliarizing the Pearl-poet: Rejecting Translations and Broadening the Course.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2019.
Teaching activities
Fall 2019
ENGL 231 Medieval Literature in Translation
ENGL 250 Forms of Popular Writing
ENGL 302 History of the English Language
2016-2017
ENGL 302 History of the English Language
ENGL 430 Old English (full-year)
ENGL 434 Advanced Studies in Early English Literature: Medieval Texts, Modern Readers
2015-2016
ENGL 302 History of the English Language
ENGL 304 Chaucer (full-year)
ENGL 434 Advanced Studies in Early English Literature: Medieval Texts, Modern Readers