Margo Hendricks (pen name, Elysabeth Grace; born 1948) is an American professor emerita of literature at University of California, Santa Cruz.[1][2] Her research focuses on race and culture in literature.

Margo Hendricks
Born1948
Academic background
Alma materUC Riverside
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish Literature; Shakespeare; Theatre Studies
InstitutionsUC Santa Cruz

Career

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Hendricks was awarded a doctorate from the University of California, Riverside in 1987, with a thesis titled 'The Roaring Girls: A Study of 17th Century Feminism and the Development of Feminist Drama'.[3] She worked at San Jose State University before joining University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is Professor Emerita of Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature.[4][5] She has held ACLS fellowships and in 1990-91 the Ford Fellowship at the Stanford Centre for Humanities.[6][4] In 2020-21 she will be a Folger Institute Research Fellow.[7] Since becoming emerita in 2010, she has also written fiction under the name Elysabeth Grace.[8][2]

Select publications

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  • Hendricks, M. 1992. "Managing the Barbarian: "The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage", Renaissance Drama 23, 165–188. doi:10.1086/rd.23.41917288
  • Hendricks, M. and Parker, P. 1994. Women,'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period. doi:10.4324/9780203388891[9]
  • Hendricks, M. 1996. "‘The Moor of Venice,’or the Italian on the Renaissance English Stage." Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender, pp. 193–209.
  • Hendricks, M. 1996. “‘Obscured by Dreams’: Race, Empire, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 1, 1996, pp. 37–60.[10]
  • Hendricks, M. 2010. "Race: A Renaissance Category?". A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, 2, pp. 535–44.
  • Hendricks, M. 2016. "'A word, sweet Lucrece': Confession, Feminism, and The Rape of Lucrece", in D. Callaghan ed. A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, 2nd, ed.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "CAMPUS DIRECTORY: Margo Hendricks". UC Santa Cruz. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Margo Hendricks ⁠— Coloring the Past, Rewriting Our Future: RaceB4Race". Folger Shakespeare Library. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  3. ^ Price-Hendricks, M. 1987. The roaring girls: A study of 17th century feminism and the development of feminist drama. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Riverside.
  4. ^ a b "ACLS American Council of Learned Societies | www.acls.org - Results". www.acls.org. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  5. ^ "Front Matter", A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016, pp. i–xix, doi:10.1002/9781118501221.fmatter, ISBN 978-1-118-50122-1
  6. ^ "Current Center Fellows: 1990-1991". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  7. ^ elmartin (2014-12-15). "Current Fellows". Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  8. ^ "About Me". Elysabeth Grace. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  9. ^ Jordan, Constance; Simeroth, Rosann; Smith, Pamela H.; Tassi, Marguerite A. (1995). "Book reviews". Women's Studies. 24 (3): 273–290. doi:10.1080/00497878.1995.9979054. ISSN 0049-7878.
  10. ^ Hendricks, Margo (1996). ""Obscured by dreams": Race, Empire, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream". Shakespeare Quarterly. 47 (1): 37–60. doi:10.2307/2871058. ISSN 0037-3222. JSTOR 2871058.
  11. ^ Callaghan, Dympna, ed. (2016-04-22). A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. doi:10.1002/9781118501221. ISBN 9781118501221.
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