Valerie Traub

Valerie Traub's research concerns gender, sexuality, empire, and race in early modern England. She is the author of Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (2015) and The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, both of which won the best book awards from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Other books include Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992).  She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment and three co-edited collections: Ovidian Transversions: "Iphis and Ianthe," 1300-1650,  Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects, and Gay Shame.  She is currently at work on another project on discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and class in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century anatomical and cartographic illustrations, entitled Mapping Humanity in the Early Modern West: Classification, Norms, Biopolitics. She is also co-editing a volume for the Medieval Institute Publications, Reproductive Justice after Roe: Lessons from the Premodern Classroom. She is the recipient of the John D’Arms Award for graduate mentoring and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award.