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Profile: Valerie Traub
Title: Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies
Degree:
Ph.D., Massachusetts-Amherst 1990
Ph.D., Massachusetts-Amherst 1990

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Research Interests
Primary Interests
Early modern cultural studies, especially Renaissance drama; gender studies, queer studies, and the history of sexuality.
Secondary Interests
Early modern anatomy and cartography; feminist theory
Publications
Co-editor, Gay Shame (2009).
“The Nature of Norms: Anatomy, Cartography, King Lear” (2009).
“The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge,” (2008).
“The Past is a Foreign Country? The Times and Spaces of Islamicate Sexuality Studies" (2008).
“The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography” (2007).
“Friendship’s Loss: Alan Bray’s Making of History,” (2004).
“Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeare’s Two Loves" (2003).
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (2002).
“Mapping the Global Body” (2000).
“Sex Without Issue: Sodomy, Reproduction, and Signification in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” (1998).
“Gendering Mortality in Early Modern Anatomies” (1996).
Co-editor, Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (1996).
Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992).
“The Nature of Norms: Anatomy, Cartography, King Lear” (2009).
“The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge,” (2008).
“The Past is a Foreign Country? The Times and Spaces of Islamicate Sexuality Studies" (2008).
“The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography” (2007).
“Friendship’s Loss: Alan Bray’s Making of History,” (2004).
“Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeare’s Two Loves" (2003).
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (2002).
“Mapping the Global Body” (2000).
“Sex Without Issue: Sodomy, Reproduction, and Signification in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” (1998).
“Gendering Mortality in Early Modern Anatomies” (1996).
Co-editor, Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (1996).
Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992).
Additional Info
Administrative Experience:
Chair, Department of Women's Studies (6 years)
Graduate Director, Department of English (3 years)
Download Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Chair, Department of Women's Studies (6 years)
Graduate Director, Department of English (3 years)
Download Curriculum Vitae (PDF)



