Dr. Olga Valbuena

Associate Professor of English

Contact

Office: C110 Tribble Hall

Phone: (336) 758-5646

Email: valbueol@wfu.edu

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 Publications

Subjects to the King’s Divorce: Equivocation, Infidelity, and Resistance in Early Modern England. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

“Casuistry, Martyrdom, and the Allegiance Controversy in Donne’s Pseudo-Martyr.” Religion and Literature 32.2 (Summer 2000): pp. 49-80. Special Issue on Faith and Faction: Religious Heterodoxy in the English Renaissance.

Recusant Defenses. Topic Essay. Women Writers Online: Renaissance Women Online. Ed. Paul Caton. September 1999.

Introduction and Contextual Materials for “The History of the Angelical Virgin Glorious S. Clare.” Translated by Sister Magdalen Augustine. Women Writers Online: Renaissance Women Online. Ed. Paul Caton. September 1999

Introduction and Contextual Materials for “The Rule of the Most Blissed Father Saint Benedict.” Translated by Alexia Gray from Saint Benedict. Women Writers Online: Renaissance Women Online. Ed. Paul Caton. September 1999.