Noël Valis
Director of Graduate Studies
(203)
432-1155
Email noel.valis@yale.edu
Ph.D. Bryn Mawr
College, 1975, Professor.
Areas of interest:
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish
literature and culture, comparative
literature, interdisciplinary approaches to
modern Spanish culture;
Spanish Civil War; religion and literature.
She is the author of:
The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas
(1981); The Novels of Jacinto Octavio
Picón (1986); Leopoldo Alas (Clarin): An Annotated Bibliography (1986); In the Feminine
Mode: Essays on Hispanic Women Writers (co-editor) (1990);"Malevolent
Insemination" and Other Essays on
Clarín (1990) (editor); editions
of Carolina Coronado's Poesías (1991), Picón's La hijastra del
amor (1990), and Pereda's Bocetos al
temple (1990); Las conjuradoras:
Antología bilingüe de seis poetas
norteamericanas de hoy (1993); a
translation of Pedro Salinas's Víspera del gozo (Prelude to
Pleasure) (1993); The Poetry of Julia
Uceda (1995), and other studies.
Published in 2002-03: Leopoldo Alas
(Clarín): An Annotated
Bibliography. Supplement I; Mi casa
me recuerda/My House Remembers Me
(poetry), and The Culture of
Cursilería. Bad Taste, Kitsch and
Class in Modern Spain, which won the
MLA's 2003 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. Recent Publications: The Poetry of Sara Pujol
Russell (Introd. and Trans.) (2005); Reading the Nineteenth-Century Spanish
Novel: Selected Essays (2005); Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War (2007), an edited volume for the Modern Language Association; and Burning Cartography, poetry by Noni Benegas (Introd. and Trans.) (2007), which won the New England Council of Latin American Studies’ Best Book Translation Prize in 2008.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2006-2007, she recently completed a book titled Sacred Realism: Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative, which will be published by Yale University Press. Also forthcoming: La cultura de la cursilería: Mal gusto, clase y kitsch en la España moderna (Antonio Machado Libros, Col. Pensamiento).
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