Staff profiles

• Programme Leader, MA in English Literary Research
• Teaching and research in the area of Renaissance literature

• Member of Centre for Travel Writing Studies
• Member of Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research

• Renaissance literature and culture
• Renaissance political culture
• Renaissance travel writing
• The origins of English empire
• Piracy and maritime violence

• Caird Fellow, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (2008-09)
• British Academy Small Grant (2008-09)
• Clark Library Fellow, UCLA (2008-09)
• In collaboration with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, I co-organised with Daniel Carey (NUI, Galway) an international conference on Richard Hakluyt 1552-1616; life, times, legacy, May, 2008. The conference was supported by the British Academy, the Hakluyt Society, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, and the Society for Renaissance Studies
• AHRC Research Leave Scheme Award (2004)
• AHRC Award for Postgraduate Research Training Colloquia (with Tim Woods, 2004)
• British Academy Small Grant (2003)
• Hartley Institute Fellow, University of Southampton (2001-02)

• General Editor, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, 14 volumes (OUP, 2014-16) with Daniel Carey (NUI, Galway) and Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex) (visit the National Maritime Museum website)
• Editor, Three Renaissance Plays about Muslim Women, (MUP, 2012) with Nabil Matar (University of Minnesota)
• Editor, Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2011) with Daniel Carey (NUI, Galway)
• Series Editor, Early Modern Writing Series: Recovering radical manuscript and printed texts from the cultural margins, Trent Editions

• Editor, Renaissance Section, Literature Compass, with Anthony Hasler (2009)
• Executive Committee, Raymond Williams Society (2008 onwards)
• Fellow of the English Association (elected 2008)
• Conference Officer, Society for Renaissance Studies (2008 onwards)
• Steering Group, East Midlands Early Modern Colloquium (2007 onwards)
• AHRC Peer Review College (2006 onwards)
• Co-Editor, Key Words, A Journal of Cultural Materialism
• Editorial Board, Renaissance Studies (2005-2008)
• Hon. Secretary, Society for Renaissance Studies (2005-2008)
• Editorial Board, Renaissance section, Literature Compass (2003-2009)
• Editorial Board, Jewish Culture and History (1997-2005)

Professor Jowitt has recently supervised PhD candidates on projects concerned with Renaissance representations of Turks, John Fletcher's dramatic works, and John Barclay's prose romance Argenis and Research Masters students on gender and landscape in early modern colonial literature, and on representations of Muslim women in Renaissance drama.

She would be interested in working on other PhD and research MA projects on Renaissance travel writing, the history of empire and colonialism, race, as well as other aspects of Renaissance literature and culture.