Biography
Nick Mason is a Professor of English at BYU, where he has taught since 1999. He primarily specializes in the literature and culture of Britain’s Romantic period (1780s–1830s), with secondary interests in book and publishing history and contemporary British and European fiction. Besides offering upper-division courses and graduate seminars on Romanticism, he regularly teaches surveys of British literature since 1789 (ENGL 292), a major authors course on the works of Jane Austen (ENGL 384R), and a course for European Studies majors on the literature, art, and culture of modern Europe (EUROP 320R).
Research Interests
Prof. Mason's recent publications include:* Dorothy's Wordsworth's Rydal Journals (Liverpool UP, 2025), the first ever edition of a remarkable set of diaries that one of England's preeminent chroniclers of everyday life kept between 1824 and 1835
* An introduction to and annotated transcription of "Six Poems by Margaret Hutchinson, Wordsworth's Radical Niece" published in the March 2025 issue of PMLA
* An overview of "Literary Parody and Satire" in Romantic-era Britain that appeared in the Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose (Oxford UP, 2024)
* The digital edition Dorothy Wordsworth's Lake District (co-edited with Paul Westover and Michelle Levy, Romantic Circles, 2023)
* An essay on “Larches, Llandaff, and Forestry Politics in Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes” published in Studies in Romanticism in 2022
* The essay collection Romantic Periodicals in the 21st Century: 11 Case Studies from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (co-edited with Tom Mole, Edinburgh UP, 2020)
* A digital edition of William Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes (co-edited with Paul Westover and Shannon Stimpson, Romantic Circles, 2015 [1st ed.] and 2020 [expanded 2nd ed.])
* The monograph Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
Teaching Interests
British literature since 1750 (especially the Romantic period), book history, and contemporary European fictionHonors and Awards
- Departmental Citizenship Award, BYU English Department (2025 - 2025)
- Emmeline B. Wells Grant for research on women's lives, Brigham Young University (2024 - 2025)
- Willison Trust Research Fellowship for Book History, Willison Charitable Trust (UK) (2019 - 2021)
- Humanities Center Fellowship, BYU Humanities Center (2017 - 2020)
- Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education, BYU (2019 - 2019)
- European Studies Professor of the Year, European Studies Student Association (2018 - 2018)