Martine van Elk

Academic Profile

Academic Background: MAs in English (University of Amsterdam and Rice University), Ph.D. in English (Rice University).

Research Interests: Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, constructions of femininity, 17th-century women in theater, and early modern women as makers of domestic artifacts.

Appointments: Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach.

Publications:

• Early Modern Women’s Writing: Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic (Palgrave, 2017).
• Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare (Co-editor, Palgrave, 2004).
• Essays on Shakespeare, vagrancy, and early modern women.

Additional Contributions: Runs a blog titled 'Early Modern Women: Lives, Texts, Objects' and teaches courses on Shakespeare, Milton, English drama, and Irish literature.