Associate Professor of English

Contact

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