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]
^Price-Hendricks, M. 1987. The roaring girls: A study of 17th century feminism and the development of feminist drama. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Riverside.
