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Dr. Heidi Craig [email protected] Department of English, Texas A&M University, 349 LAAH, 4227 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 Tel: 1 (213) 249-3722 http://heidi-craig.weebly.com/

EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 2019-present

Editor, World (www.worldshakesbib.org), 2019-present

EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, English, Book History & Print Culture Certificate in Digital Humanities, Centre for Medieval Studies (2015) 2017 University of Toronto Dissertation Title: “A Play without a Stage: English Renaissance Drama, 1642-1660” Committee: Professors Jeremy Lopez (Chair), Holger Schott Syme, Marjorie Rubright

Master of Letters, Shakespeare Studies University of St. Andrews 2011 MLitt thesis: “The Professionalization of Shakespeare Studies” Advisor: Professor Andrew Murphy Degree Conferred with Distinction

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Western Society and Culture Concordia University, Liberal Arts College (Montreal, Canada) 2008 Honours thesis: “Nabokov’s Critical Dodging” Advisor: Professor Ariela Freedman Degree Conferred with Great Distinction

PUBLICATIONS “The King’s Servants in Printed Paratexts, 1594-1695,” in HLQ special issue “Perfor- mance and the Paper Stage, 1640-1695,” edited by Emma Depledge and Rachel Willie, Huntington Library Quarterly 85, no. 1 (Spring 2022)(Forthcoming).

“‘Villanies of that damnd K´eeper’: Caregiving, Criminality, and Contagion in Early Modern England,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Volume 16.1 (Fall 2021) (accepted).

“Browse as Interface in Shakespeare’s Texts and The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online.” Co-authored with Laura Estill. In The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface. Edited by Paul Budra and Cli↵ord Werier (submitted).

“A Century of English Drama: Restoration Reprints of Tudor Drama” Reprints and Revivals of Early Modern Drama. Edited by Eoin Price and Harry Newman (Cam- bridge University Press, under contract).

“Printed Drama in the Civil Wars and Interregnum.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. Series editor Lauren Shohet (forthcoming). “Rag Women and Early Modern Paper Production.” Invited contribution to Women’s Labour and Early Modern Book History in England. Edited by Valerie Wayne (, 2020) 29-46. Essay noted in Adam Smyth’s review of collection in the Times Literary • Supplement No. 6124, 14 August 2020

“Rethinking Prologues on Page and Stage.” Co-authored with Sonia Massai. In Re- thinking Theatrical Documents. Edited by Ti↵any Stern (Arden Shakespeare), 91-110.

“Rags, rag-pickers and paper making in early modern England,” Literature Compass (May 2019), 16:e12523. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12523

“Missing Shakespeare, 1642-1660,” English Literary Renaissance 49, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 116-144.

REVIEWS “Nell Gwynn” (Folger Theatre, 2019), Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14.1 (2019): 164-7.

Review of: Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan, eds. Canonising Shakespeare: Station- ers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 (Cambridge UP, 2017), Shakespeare Quarterly 69.2 (2018): 193-5.

Review of: June Schlueter, The Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time, (British Library, 2012), Comitatus 43 (2012), 277-79.

WORKS IN Monograph in progress, A Play without a Stage: English Renaissance Drama, 1642- PROGRESS 1660.

“Celebrity Skulls: in the Civil War and Interregnum.” In Shakespeare and Civil Unrest. Edited by Mark Bayer and Joseph J. Navitsky (invited contribution).

DIGITAL With Sonia Massai and Thomas L. Berger, General Editor of Early Modern Dramatic SCHOLARSHIP Paratexts (EMDP), (paratexts.folger.edu) a digital and expanded edition of Berger and Massai, eds. Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 (Cambridge UP, 2014). (in progress)

“To All Points of the Compass: Global Shakespeares.” Folger Shakespeare Digital Edi- tions.(submitted).

Guest blog post for The Collation, Folger Shakespeare Library, “Fresh Starts: Research and Teaching with the World Shakespeare Bibliography.” (submitted and accepted Jan- uary 10, 2020; forthcoming in August 2020)

With Katayoun Torabi, Laura Estill, Kris May: Digital Introductory Video to the World Shakespeare Bibliography (available at (www.worldshakesbib.org/resources)

With Katayoun Torabi, Laura Estill, Kris May: Teaching Resource: “Submitting An- notations to the World Shakespeare Bibliography” (available at www.worldshakesbib.org)

Guest blog post for The Malone Society on Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts (forth- coming, 2020) “Minding the Gaps of Early Modern Drama.” The Collation: A Gathering of Scholar- ship from the Folger Shakespeare Library (October 2018).

“The Intrepid and Inquiring Celia Fiennes.” Guest post for Early Modern Women: Lives, Texts, Objects, by Martine Van Elk. (June 2018).

Contributor to The Lost Plays Database. Edited by Roslyn Knutson, David McInnis and Matthew Steggle, and hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

SELECTED Digital Humanities Course Bursary developing DH components for ENGL 603: Bibli- AWARDS & ography and Literary Research Methods (2020). FELLOWSHIPS With Kevin O’Sullivan, Texas A&M University Libraries Information Literacy Devel- opment Grant, for “Artifactual Literacy and Archival Intelligences: A Collaborative Approach.” (2020)

Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts International Travel Grant (2020)

ADVANCE NCFDD Faculty Success Fellowship (2020)

Project Development Grant from Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR). Funds used to hire graduate student research assistant to work on Early Modern Dra- matic Paratexts (2020)

Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) Tuition Scholarship for Digital Hu- manities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2020

Malone Society Research Grant (2019)

Maddock Research Fellowship, Marsh’s Library (2019)

Folger-Mellon Long-Term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, (2018-19)

Honorable Mention in the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize from the Shakespeare Association of America (2018)

W. M. Keck Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library (2017-18)

Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow, Newberry Library (2017-18)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2016-2017)

Viola Whitney Pratt Memorial OSOTF Scholarship (in English) (2015-2016)

Francis Bacon Foundation Short-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library (2015-2016)

Folger Institute Grant-in-aid (For participation in the seminar, “Researching the Archive,” led by Professors Jean E. Howard and Pamela H. Smith) (2014-2015)

Bourse de doctorat en recherche, Fonds Qu´ebecois de la recherche sur la soci´et´eet la culture (FQRSC) (3-year award: 2013-2016)

SSHRC Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2-year award: 2013-2015) University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship (2011-2014)

British Council Scotland Saltire Scholarship (2010)

Rhodes Scholarship Finalist (2009)

Liberal Arts College Prize (awarded to the outstanding graduating student in the Liberal Arts College), Concordia University (2008)

SELECTED Seminar co-leader with Eric Johnson and Jes´us Tronch for “Wiring the Circuits of TALKS Global Shakespeares.” World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore. (July 2021) denotes invited ⇤ “Baggage Books.” Gender and Book History conference, University of St Andrews, Scotland, July 2020. (postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19)

Seminar co-leader with Adam Hooks on “Reading Lists.” Shakespeare Association of America, Austin, TX. (March-April 2021).

“Search and Browse Interfaces and Shakespearean Bibliography,” Bibliography panel at the South Central MLA (SCMLA) Conference, Bibliography, Houston, TX. (October 2020, postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19) ⇤ “Paratexts Sans Texts.” 48th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of Amer- ica, Denver, CO. (April 2020) (virtual meeting due to COVID-19)

“Corpora of Early Modern Drama.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, St. Louis, MO. (October 2019)

“A Digital Edition of Paratexts in Early English Drama.” Co-presentation with Sonia Massai at Digitizing the Stage, University of Oxford. (July 2019)

“Heaps of Lear.” 47th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, DC. (April 2019) ⇤ “Lost Manuscripts and the Editorial Imagination.” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, ON. (March 2019)

Invited commentator for “Women in and around Print.” Seminar organized by Geor- gianna Ziegler at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. (March 2019) ⇤ “King Lears in the Seventeenth Century: Di↵erence and Decay,” English Department Early Modern Colloquium, Columbia University. (November 2018)

“Lost & Found: Dramatic Materials of the 1640s and 1650s.” Material Witness session, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D. C. (September 2018) “Women Rag Rakers and Early Modern Paper-making.” 46th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, CA. (March 2018)

“Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts in Print and Digital Archives.” Co-presentation with Professor Sonia Massai at the ‘Digitizing the Stage’ Conference at the University of Oxford. (July 2017)

“‘An Unheard of Prodigality’: Excess and Thrift in the Production of Early Modern Drama.” Early Modern Center Conference on “Transience, Garbage, Excess, Loss: The Ephemeral, 1500-1800,” at UC Santa Barbara, CA. (April 2017)

“Cast and Actor Lists in Early Modern Playbooks, 1616-1695.” 45th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, GA. (April 2017)

“The Changeling: Conversion and Desire.” Participant and speaker at workshop per- formance of The Changeling, organized by Early Modern Conversions Project at Studio Theatre, Ryerson University, Toronto ON. (March 2017)

Invited guest lecture on Commonwealth drolls for ENGL 832: Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century, a graduate seminar led by Professor Diana Solomon at Simon Fraser University. (May 2016) ⇤ “Playing the Old Play: Beaumont and Fletcher, 1647-1655.” 44th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, LA. (March 2016)

“Paratexts in English Printed Drama, 1642 to 1660.” Book History & Print Culture Librorum, University of Toronto. (December 2015)

“Shakespeare Without a Stage: Publication and Popularity, 1642-1660.” 43rd Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, BC. (April 2015)

“Shakespeare’s Interregnum Readers”, European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) Conference. University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. (June 2013)

“Shakespeare’s Pedagogical Afterlife, 1642-60”, University of Toronto English Graduate Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. (May 2013)

“‘Fob o↵our disgrace with a tale’: Fable and Censorship in ”. 14th Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, The Shakespeare Institute. (June 2012)

“‘First shal Phebus fallen fro his speere’: The aubade tradition and Boethian intertext in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”, English Department Colloquium, University of Toronto. (May 2012)

“‘Go Little Book’: Manuscript Sociologies in Printed Dedicatory Epistles.” Colloquium on the Correspondence of Early Modern England, University of Toronto. (December 2011)

“Reopening the Debate on Quarto 1673.” 13th Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference, The Shakespeare Institute. (May 2011) TEACHING As Primary Instructor EXPERIENCE At Texas A&M University:

Bibliography and Literary Research (ENGL 603), 2021 Description: Graduate course on bibliography, digital humanities, and techniques of research and scholarly production in literature.

Studies in Shakespeare (ENGL 412: Shakespeare’s Rome), 2020 Description: Upper-level undergraduate course, which considers the literary the literary, political and philosophical legacies of ancient Rome as filtered through historical intermediaries and early modern English culture.

At the University of Toronto:

Milton (ENG303H1F), 2017 Description: Upper-level undergraduate course on the poetry and prose of John Milton.

As Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant with tutorials for Shakespeare (ENG220 Y1Y), 2014-15, 2016-17 Duties: writing and leading weekly tutorials, lecturing, designing assignments and syllabi, grading essays and exams, holding oce hours

Teaching Assistant for the Writing Center and “Writing SSHRC Proposals”, at the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication, 2017 Duties: At the Writing Centre: Teaching students to improve their capacity to plan, write, and revise academic assignment, through individual consultation. In “Writing SSHRC Proposals”: Counselling graduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences, through written feedback and individual consultation, on how to write e↵ective proposals for Master’s Scholarships and Doctoral Awards from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).

SUPERVISION Kevin O’Sullivan, Texas A&M University PhD student. Co-Chair of Dissertation com- mittee, 2019-.

Hannah Bowling, Texas A&M University MA student. Chair of MA committee. 2020-.

Jillian Luna, Texas A&M University Undergraduate student. Co-Chair of undergrad- uate committee. 2020-.

PROFESSIONAL “Making Meaning: Hands-on Basic Paleography and Book Production.” Led by Mar- WORKSHOPS garet Ezell, Kevin O’Sullivan and Heather Wolfe. Collaboration between Texas A&M University and Folger Shakespeare Library at TAMU, July 2020.

“Introduction to Project Planning and Management for DH: Issues and Approaches.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Victoria BC, June 2020. (Postponed to June 2021 due to COVID-19). SERVICE Member of Governing Board for The New Variorum Shakespeare (September 2019-) &OTHER ACADEMIC Peer reviewer of conference submissions for Digital Humanities 2020 (DH2020): Car- EXPERIENCE refours/Intersections, Ottawa, ON. December 2019.

University of Toronto Graduate English Association (GEA): Invited speaker at work- shops on scholarship and fellowship applications, comprehensive examinations, special fields examinations and transitioning to ABD status; organizer and panel moderator for annual English graduate student conferences. (2011-2017)

Book History & Print Culture (BHPC) Program Committee, Doctoral student repre- sentative. (2014-2015)

Student Representative for University of Toronto’s Student Library Advisory Board. Appointed by the Vice-Provost of Graduate Education. (2013-2014)

Research Assistant for Professor Jeremy Lopez, reference checking for Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama, Cambridge University Press, 2014. (2013, paid)

Research Assistant for Professor Brian Corman, literature review on the criticism of George Farquhar. (2012, paid)

French-to-English Translator, Centre du pardon national (2008-2010)

LANGUAGES French (native proficiency); Spanish; Old English; Middle English

PROFESSIONAL Shakespeare Association of America, Renaissance Society of America, Modern Lan- MEMBERSHIPS guage Association, European Shakespeare Research Association, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, British Shakespeare Association

REFERENCES Jeremy Lopez Holger Schott Syme Professor of English Associate Professor of English University of Toronto University of Toronto [email protected] [email protected]

Marjorie Rubright Marta Straznicky Associate Professor of English Professor of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst Queen’s University [email protected] [email protected]

Jean E. Howard Sonia Massai George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities Professor of Shakespeare Studies Columbia University King’s College London [email protected] [email protected]

Alan Galey Valerie Wayne Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Professor Emerita University of Toronto University of Hawai’i at M¯anoa [email protected] [email protected]