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Martha J. Craig
Office: 387 Bradley Hall
Phone: (309) 677-2463
E-mail: mcraig@bradley.edu
Professor Craig came to Bradley from Ball State University in Indiana in 1999. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford in history, her M.A. from The College of William and Mary, and her Ph.D. from Purdue University in Renaissance Literature. Her special fields are Shakespeare and gender studies, and her doctoral dissertation analyzes the construction, subversion, and accommodations of feminine virtue in Shakespeare's England and in the literature of Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Leigh. While at Purdue and Ball State Professor Craig taught World, British, and American literature, creative writing, expository writing, Shakespeare, and Gender Studies, and at Bradley she has taught Shakespeare, English 101 and 300, and Western Civ. She is a delegate to the University Senate and a liaison between the English Department and the Cullom-Davis Library. She is also serving as a dramaturge for the Bradley Theatre Department's March, 2001 production of King Lear, and an enthusiastic, if frequently absent, member of the Bradley University Film Group.
Professor Craig's publications include "The Protocol of Submission: Ralegh as Timias" in Genre; "`Write it upon the walles of your houses': Dorothy Leigh's The Mothers Blessing" in Linda S. Colemans's Women's Life-Writing: Finding Voice/Building Community; and "Shakespeare in China," a review in Renaissance Quarterly. She is currently working on an essay comparing Portia in The Merchant of Venice to Venetian Courtesan and poet Veronica Franco, against a backdrop of Shakespeare's Italian plays, and an essay on cross-dressing/crossing taboos in Merchant and Twelfth Night. She is also writing, with her daughter, The College Guide to Boys, and (solo) a memoir of her life as a faculty child in Princeton, N.J.