Assistant Professor
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Phone: (205) 665-6439
Fax: (205) 665-6422
E-Mail: crawfordnr@montevallo.edu
At Montevallo my teaching ranges from upper-level and graduate courses in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature to a freshman composition course that focuses on connections between visual and verbal rhetoric. Additionally, I often teach the medieval to early modern survey, the introduction to the major, world literature, and senior seminar capstone courses such as “Shakespeare and Pinter” and “Shakespeare and the Question of Literary Value.”
My research centers on the relationship between language and selfhood in Renaissance drama, and I am currently working on a book related to this topic. I also maintain broad interests in modern literature, drama, and playwriting. My essays appear in English Literary Renaissance, The Comparatist, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Renaissance Papers, Modern Drama (forthcoming), and other scholarly journals and collections. Awards include the annual SAMLA/South Atlantic Review Essay Prize and the Shakespeare Association of America’s Open Competition.
Work from my previous life as a playwright has been produced at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco; the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Massachusetts; WLRN (NPR-affiliate) radio in Miami, and other venues.