Biography
B.A. McGill University (1990); Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1999). Julie Crawford works on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. She has written on Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Margaret Cavendish, the Sidneys, Anne Clifford, Margaret Hoby, and Mary Wroth, as well as on post-Reformation religious culture, the history of reading, and the history of sexuality. Her articles have appeared in Studies in English Literature, English Literary History, Renaissance Drama, PMLA, Early Modern Culture, Huntington Library Quarterly, The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare, The Oxford Companion to Popular Print Culture, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610, and in a wide range of edited collections. Her book, Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation England, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2005, and her new book, Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England, was published by Oxford UP in 2014. She is the new editor (Early Seventeenth Century) for the Norton Anthology of English Literature, recently edited a special issue of English Literary Renaissance, and is serving as the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Margaret Cavendish which will be published in 2025. She is currently working on two books, one on Milton’s Paradise Lost, for the Core Knowledge series, and one on Margaret Cavendish.
