Maria Carrig

• Associate Professor of English, Theatre, and Great Ideas

Maria Carrig's teaching and research focus on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, as well as the religion and magic beliefs of the early modern period. She earned her B.A. in English literature and Greek from Bryn Mawr College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University. She also studied Latin and Italian in Italy, earning a certificate from the Università per stranieri in Siena.

Before coming to Carthage, Professor Carrig was a teaching fellow at Yale University and an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, where she helped start a Great Books program. She is currently working on a long-term project on Renaissance comic theory and its relation to theatrical practice in Shakespeare, Jonson and Middleton.

Outside the library, she loves to take students to theater in Chicago and Milwaukee, and on Carthage's annual trip to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. She recently completed an article on contemporary revivals of Renaissance comedies. She joined the Carthage faculty in 2002.

Education

• Ph.D., M.A. — English Literature, Yale University
• B.A. — English Literature, Bryn Mawr College
• B.A. — Greek, Bryn Mawr College

• Courses
• English Department
• Great Ideas Program
• Theatre at Carthage