Valerie Traub

Professor of English and Women's Studies  Ph.D., English, University of Massachusetts

Contact Information:

3064 Tisch Hall
435 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1003

Email: traubv@umich.edu

Website:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~traubv/

Scholarly Interests: Early modern literary and cultural studies, history of sexuality, gender and sexuality studies, gay/lesbian/queer studies, Shakespeare, early modern drama

Biography: Valerie Traub's research concerns gender and sexuality in early modern England. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, which won the best book of 2002 award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Other books include Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992) and two co-edited collections: Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (1996) and Gay Shame (forthcoming). Her current projects are entitled Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality, which analyzes the emergence of new discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and class in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century anatomical and cartographic illustrations; and Making Sexual Knowledge: Essays in the History of Sexuality. She sits on the advisory boards of PMLA, GLQ, and Studies in English Literature. She recently received the John D’Arms Award for graduate mentoring.

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Publications:

“The Nature of Norms: Anatomy, Cartography, King Lear,” South Central Review special issue on “Shakespeare and Science” (2009).

“The Joys of Martha Joyless: Or, the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge,” eds., Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack, Sean Keilen, Renaissance Culture and the New Millenium (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

“The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography,” Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies, eds. George Haggerty and Molly McGarry (Blackwell, 2007).

“‘The Past is a Foreign Country’: The Times and Spaces of Islamicate Sexuality Studies,” Islamicate Sexualities, eds. Kathryn Babayan and Asfaneh Najmabadi (Harvard University Press, 2007).

“Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeare’s Two Loves,” A Companion to Shakespeare, Vol IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, and Late Plays, eds. Richard Dutton and Jean Howard (Blackwell, 2003).