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Associate Professor of English

Contact

  • Office: C110 Tribble Hall
  • Phone: (336) 758-5646
  • Emailvalbueol@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 CelestinaPublication 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.