Dr. Olga Valbuena
Associate Professor of English
Contact
- Office: C110 Tribble Hall
- Phone: (336) 758-5646
- Email: valbueol@wfu.edu
- Degrees
Degrees
- PhD SUNY (Buffalo)
- MA SUNY (Buffalo)
- BA University of California, Irvine
Areas of Interest
- Shakespeare
- Early Modern Literature
- Early Women Writers
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
- WRI 111 Reading and Writing the Argumentative Essay
- ENG 165 Studies in British Literature
- ENG 323 Shakespeare
- ENG 326 Studies in Renaissance Literature: The Italian Setting in English Jacobean Drama
- ENG 723 Shakespeare’s Seeming Problems
Selected Works
Books
Subjects to the King’s Divorce: Equivocation, Infidelity, and Resistance in Early Modern England. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Publications
- “Introductory Essay, Introduction to Alexia Grey’s The Rule of the Most Blissed Father Saint Benedict from Saint Benedict,” (January 2024 update). Women Writers Project / Women Writers in Context: https://www.wwp-test.neu.edu/context/#valbuena.saintbenedict.xml
- “Sorceresses, Love Magic, and the Inquisition of Linguistic Sorcery in Celestina. Publication of the Modern Language Association (PMLA) 109, no. 2 (March 1994) 207-24. Reprinted in Literature in Criticism from 1400-1800. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 169. Detroit: Gale, November 2009. 298-312.