Margo Hendricks

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
Born	1948
Academic background
Alma mater	UC Riverside
Academic work
Discipline	English Literature; Shakespeare; Theatre Studies
Institutions	UC Santa Cruz

Career

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

• 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]