Bassett, Andreas P.
Assistant Professor of English
Faculty Offices 128
Education
Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 2025
M.A., English, University of Washington, 2020
Textual and Digital Studies Certificate, University of Washington, 2020
B.A., English, magna cum laude, with honors, Portland State University, 2018
Bio
I am an historian of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century London book trade. My research focuses on the publication, marketing, and wholesale distribution of dramatic literature and sermons, in both single-text editions and multi-work collections. At SJSU, I teach courses on pre-modern English literature, Shakespeare, and American Indian literature.
I was the Bibliographical Society of America’s 2024 Katharine F. Pantzer New Scholar, and I have held fellowships at the Huntington Library and the Harry Ransom Center in the University of Texas at Austin. I am also the current Bibliographical Society of America liaison to the Renaissance Society of America. In this role, I organize sessions for scholars from around the world to present their research.
Links
Please feel free to take a gander at my selected publications below:
“To Cut a Long Title Short: Titling Conventions in Printed English Renaissance Drama.”English Literary Renaissance 56, no. 2 (2026): 249–80.
“Behold, a White Horse in St Paul’s Churchyard: Arthur Johnson and the Distribution of Literature in Early Seventeenth-Century London.” In Early Modern Publishers: Identities and Strategies in the Book Trade, edited by Barnaby Cullen, Ian Maclean, and Arthur der Weduwen, 466–509. Leiden: Brill, 2025.
“Broome [née Grantam], Joan (d. 1601), bookseller.”Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 14 Aug. 2025.
“Death Canto: The Urban NDN Nature Poem in Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem.”Transmotion 9:1 (2024): 18–46.
“Marlowe in Sheets: Teaching Christopher Marlowe’s Books Through Digital Materiality.” The Journal of Marlowe Studies 3 (2023): 103–17.