Adrienne Rich Distinguished University Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies; Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies
she/her/hers
Office Information:
3064 Tisch Hall
hours: Thursday, 2-4pm via Zoom
Friday 10:30-11:30, 3064 Tisch
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British; Womens Literature; Science and Literature; Graduate Faculty; Drama and Performance; English; Theory; Visual Culture; Gender and Sexuality; Early Modern; British
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Massachusetts-Amherst 1990
Highlighted Work and Publications
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Valerie Traub
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays...
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Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Valerie Traub
What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history. Her answers offer interdisciplinary strategies for confronting the difficulties of making sexual knowledge.
Based on the premise that producing sexual knowledge is difficult because sex itself is often inscrutable, Thinking Sex with the ...
Gay Shame
Edited by David Halperin and Valerie Traub
Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, “gay pride” has been the rallying cry of the gay rights movement and the political force behind the emergence of the field of lesbian and gay studies. But has something been lost, forgotten, or buried beneath the drive to transform homosexuality from a perversion to a proud social identity? Have the political requirements of gay pride repressed discussion of the more uncomfortable or undignified aspects of homosexuality?
Gay Shame seeks to lift this unofficial ban on the investigation of homosexuality and shame by presenting critical work from the...
