NICHOLAS CRAWFORD
Assistant Professor, University of Montevallo
Department of English and Foreign Languages, Station 6420
University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL 35115
crawfordnr@montevallo.edu; (205) 665-6439
Education
PublicationsPh.D. English (Renaissance Literature), University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2004
M.A. English (Playwriting), San Francisco State University
ArticlesBook Project
Outsourcing the Self: Shakespeare and the Figure of Genealogy (in progress).
Selected Presentations“Synge’s Playboy and the Eugenics of Language.” Modern Drama 51.4 (2008) forthcoming
“Orientalizing Elizabeth: Empire and Deviancy in Mrs. Dalloway.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 70 (fall 2006): 20-26.“Richard II.” The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare: A Comprehensive Guide for Students. Vol. 1. Overviews and the History Plays. Ed. Joseph Rosenblum. New York: Greenwood Press, 2005. 190-215.
“Language, Duality, and Bastardy in English Renaissance Drama.” English Literary Renaissance 34.2 (2004): 243-262.“The Discourse of Dilution in 2 Henry IV.” Renaissance Papers 2002 (2003): 61-76.
“An Africanist Impasse: Race, Return, and Revelation in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor.” South Atlantic Review 68.2 (2003): 1-25.“Staging Authorship: Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Shepard’s True West.” The Comparatist: The Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association 27 (2003): 138-164.
“Altar of Paradox: Women in Love and the Mystery of Dualism.” Like a Black and White Kaleidoscope Tossed at Random: Essays on D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love. Lawrence Revisited 1. Eds. Jean-Paul Pichardie and Philippe Romanski. Rouen, France: Publication de l’Université de Rouen, 2001. 45-58.
“The Deposition and its Double: Mirror and Metadrama in Richard II.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. San Diego, CA, April, 2007.
“This blood-shrunk commonwealth’: Money and John Ford’s Theater of Sanguinary Transgression.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA, April, 2006.
“Perkin Warbeck’s ‘Pageant majesty and new-coin’d greatness.’” Renaissance Society of America. San Francisco, CA, March, 2006.
“Astrophil and Iago.” The Southeastern Renaissance Conference. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, April, 2005.
“Sidneian Subjectivity and Shakespearean Tragedy.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Bermuda, March, 2005.
“Race, Space, and Atlantic Geography.” Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World: 1492-1888. Greensboro, NC, September, 2004. (Panel Chair)
“‘The name of king? a’ God’s name let it go’: Adulteration, Arbitration, and Repetitio in the Language of Lineage.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. New Orleans, April, 2004.
“Conceiving Bastard Language in Shakespeare and his World.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Victoria, Canada, April, 2003. (Major Session)
Selected Honors and Awards
The 2004 University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award (awarded 2005)Selected Play Productions and Staged Readings
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Legitimacy and Subjectivity in English Renaissance Drama. Director: Russ McDonald
(Single dissertation chosen from those nominated by departments throughout the university.)Open Competition, Shakespeare Association of America, 2003
for “Conceiving Bastard Language in Shakespeare and his World.
One of three selected in the association’s annual international blind competitionThe South Atlantic Review Essay Prize, 2003
Awarded to the outstanding essay published that year by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association / South Atlantic Review
Magic Theatre,* San Francisco (season premiere); Berkshire Theatre Festival, MA (with residency); Project Artaud, San Francisco; Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival & L.A. Theatre Works, Los Angeles (with fellowship and residency); Miami Book Fair International’s “Write In Our Midst” Series; NPR affiliate station WLRN, Miami.
*Plays Manslaughter and Spent archived in “Magic Theatre Scripts” collection, Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley