Valerie Traub
Biographic Data
| ID | 292769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Traub |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Traub |
| SIGNATURE | TRAUB V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project
This essay argues that the concept of ambivalence could be leveraged as a feminist project with specific epistemological value for scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Curating its recent appearance across several areas of study, we suggest the potential of ambivalence as a feminist analytic. We argue that this analytic may help feminist scholars understand the complexity of texts, people, and social circumstances—both past and pre…
Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Focuses on transversions of Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in both English and French literature Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story of a girl’s miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses in English and French from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centu…
Ovidian Transversions
Introduction: Transversions of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’
Peer Reviewed
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
The forty established and emerging scholars whose work is included in this volume bring an expansive understanding of feminism to questions of embodiment in Shakespeare and early modern studies. Using a diverse range of methods—historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, critical race studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism, eco-criticism, animal studies, disability studies, textual editing, performance and media studies—they present original readi…
Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
A Response: Difficulty, Opacity, Disposition, Method
Peer Reviewed
Identities and Bodies in Early Modern Studies
This essay reflects on intersectionality as a perspective in early modern studies, and how it can be brought into productive conversation with the question of embodiment. It argues that we can use recent work on gender and sexuality in non-Western contexts to rethink our understanding of these categories, and also their relationship to racial and colonial history. It then looks at some key writings about the black body in the medieval and early m…
Amazons, Turks, and Tartars in the Gesta Grayorum and The Comedy of Errors
This essay pursues the multiple and contradictory meanings of the signifier ‘Tartar’ in Elizabethan drama by parsing how its classical and historical referents were mapped onto the ‘trouble’ associated with gendered and racialized embodiment in the period, which was further mapped onto the early Anglo–Islamic encounter. It focuses on the imbricated series of cultural performances that constituted the 1594–5 Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn, subsequ…
Exit Pursued by a Bear: Staging Animal Bodies in The Winter’s Tale
Is the bear in A Winter’s Tale an actual bear, or merely a man in a bear suit? And what difference would it make were it real? The essay argues that the bear could well have been a live bear as there were a number of them accessible to performances at the Globe. Further, the actuality of the bear would have called attention to the two other ‘animal’ bodies in the play, Hermione’s pregnant body in the first three acts, and her real, aged body in t…
The Nature of Norms in Early Modern England: Anatomy, Cartography, King Lear
Many scholars have argued that King Lear draws inspiration from the early modern sciences of anatomy and cartography, even as it critiques the modes of knowledge (violent and penetrative or rational and imperial) they represent. Taking its cue from the conflation of anatomical and cartographic tropes in Shakespeare’s play as well as in scholars’ accounts of it, this article tracks the material and ideological interaction of anatomical illustratio…
Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester
Paul Hammond. Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press/Oxford, 2002. xii + 281 pp. index, bibl. 19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-19-818692-4 (cl), 0-19-818693-2 (pbk). - Volume 57 Issue 2
Friendship's Loss
Research Article| June 01 2004 FRIENDSHIP'S LOSS: Alan Bray's Making of History Valerie Traub Valerie Traub Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2004) 10 (3): 339–365. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-3-339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Valerie Traub; FRIENDSHIP'S LOSS: Alan Bray's Making of History. GLQ 1 June 2004; 10 (3): 339–365. doi: https://doi…
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the study by the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female homoeroticism. Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire, and eroticism in a range of early modern discourses, including poetry, drama, visual arts, pornography, and medicine. Contrary to the silence and invisibility typically ascribed to lesbianism in the Rena…
The Rewards of Lesbian History
Peer Reviewed
Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects
"Response to Richard Levin's "(Re)Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts
New Literary History - Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 1997
Sex and gender: The perversion of 'lesbian' desire
Journal Article Sex and gender: The perversion of 'lesbian' desire Get access V Traub V Traub University of Michigan, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, SPRING 1996, Pages 19–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.41.19 Published: 01 January 1996
The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris
Research Article| April 01 1995 The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris Valerie Traub Valerie Traub Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (1_and_2): 81–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-81 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Valerie Traub; The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris. GLQ 1 April 1995; 2 (1_and_2): 81–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-81 …
Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640 . Joan Larsen Klein Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama . Karen Newman Staging the Gaze: Po…
Peer Reviewed
The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris
Research Article| April 01 1995 The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris Valerie Traub Valerie Traub Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (1_and_2): 81–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-81 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Valerie Traub; The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris. GLQ 1 April 1995; 2 (1_and_2): 81–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-81 …
Friendship's Loss
Research Article| June 01 2004 FRIENDSHIP'S LOSS: Alan Bray's Making of History Valerie Traub Valerie Traub Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2004) 10 (3): 339–365. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-3-339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Valerie Traub; FRIENDSHIP'S LOSS: Alan Bray's Making of History. GLQ 1 June 2004; 10 (3): 339–365. doi: https://doi…
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the study by the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female homoeroticism. Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire, and eroticism in a range of early modern discourses, including poetry, drama, visual arts, pornography, and medicine. Contrary to the silence and invisibility typically ascribed to lesbianism in the Rena…
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project
This essay argues that the concept of ambivalence could be leveraged as a feminist project with specific epistemological value for scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Curating its recent appearance across several areas of study, we suggest the potential of ambivalence as a feminist analytic. We argue that this analytic may help feminist scholars understand the complexity of texts, people, and social circumstances—both past and pre…
The Nature of Norms in Early Modern England: Anatomy, Cartography, King Lear
Many scholars have argued that King Lear draws inspiration from the early modern sciences of anatomy and cartography, even as it critiques the modes of knowledge (violent and penetrative or rational and imperial) they represent. Taking its cue from the conflation of anatomical and cartographic tropes in Shakespeare’s play as well as in scholars’ accounts of it, this article tracks the material and ideological interaction of anatomical illustratio…
Sex and gender: The perversion of 'lesbian' desire
Journal Article Sex and gender: The perversion of 'lesbian' desire Get access V Traub V Traub University of Michigan, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, SPRING 1996, Pages 19–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.41.19 Published: 01 January 1996
Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men about Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640 . Joan Larsen Klein Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama . Karen Newman Staging the Gaze: Po…
Peer Reviewed
The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris
Research Article| April 01 1995 The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris Valerie Traub Valerie Traub Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1995) 2 (1_and_2): 81–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-81 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Valerie Traub; The Psychomorphology of the Clitoris. GLQ 1 April 1995; 2 (1_and_2): 81–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2-1_and_2-81 …
Sex and gender: The perversion of 'lesbian' desire
Journal Article Sex and gender: The perversion of 'lesbian' desire Get access V Traub V Traub University of Michigan, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, SPRING 1996, Pages 19–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1996.41.19 Published: 01 January 1996
"Response to Richard Levin's "(Re)Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts
New Literary History - Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 1997
Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects
The Rewards of Lesbian History
Peer Reviewed
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the study by the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female homoeroticism. Valerie Traub analyzes the representation of female-female love, desire, and eroticism in a range of early modern discourses, including poetry, drama, visual arts, pornography, and medicine. Contrary to the silence and invisibility typically ascribed to lesbianism in the Rena…
Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester
Paul Hammond. Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press/Oxford, 2002. xii + 281 pp. index, bibl. 19.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-19-818692-4 (cl), 0-19-818693-2 (pbk). - Volume 57 Issue 2
Friendship's Loss
Research Article| June 01 2004 FRIENDSHIP'S LOSS: Alan Bray's Making of History Valerie Traub Valerie Traub Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2004) 10 (3): 339–365. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-3-339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Valerie Traub; FRIENDSHIP'S LOSS: Alan Bray's Making of History. GLQ 1 June 2004; 10 (3): 339–365. doi: https://doi…
The Nature of Norms in Early Modern England: Anatomy, Cartography, King Lear
Many scholars have argued that King Lear draws inspiration from the early modern sciences of anatomy and cartography, even as it critiques the modes of knowledge (violent and penetrative or rational and imperial) they represent. Taking its cue from the conflation of anatomical and cartographic tropes in Shakespeare’s play as well as in scholars’ accounts of it, this article tracks the material and ideological interaction of anatomical illustratio…
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
The forty established and emerging scholars whose work is included in this volume bring an expansive understanding of feminism to questions of embodiment in Shakespeare and early modern studies. Using a diverse range of methods—historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, critical race studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism, eco-criticism, animal studies, disability studies, textual editing, performance and media studies—they present original readi…
Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race
A Response: Difficulty, Opacity, Disposition, Method
Peer Reviewed
Identities and Bodies in Early Modern Studies
This essay reflects on intersectionality as a perspective in early modern studies, and how it can be brought into productive conversation with the question of embodiment. It argues that we can use recent work on gender and sexuality in non-Western contexts to rethink our understanding of these categories, and also their relationship to racial and colonial history. It then looks at some key writings about the black body in the medieval and early m…
Amazons, Turks, and Tartars in the Gesta Grayorum and The Comedy of Errors
This essay pursues the multiple and contradictory meanings of the signifier ‘Tartar’ in Elizabethan drama by parsing how its classical and historical referents were mapped onto the ‘trouble’ associated with gendered and racialized embodiment in the period, which was further mapped onto the early Anglo–Islamic encounter. It focuses on the imbricated series of cultural performances that constituted the 1594–5 Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn, subsequ…
Exit Pursued by a Bear: Staging Animal Bodies in The Winter’s Tale
Is the bear in A Winter’s Tale an actual bear, or merely a man in a bear suit? And what difference would it make were it real? The essay argues that the bear could well have been a live bear as there were a number of them accessible to performances at the Globe. Further, the actuality of the bear would have called attention to the two other ‘animal’ bodies in the play, Hermione’s pregnant body in the first three acts, and her real, aged body in t…
Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650
Focuses on transversions of Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in both English and French literature Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story of a girl’s miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses in English and French from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centu…
Ovidian Transversions
Introduction: Transversions of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’
Peer Reviewed
Ambivalence as a Feminist Project
This essay argues that the concept of ambivalence could be leveraged as a feminist project with specific epistemological value for scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Curating its recent appearance across several areas of study, we suggest the potential of ambivalence as a feminist analytic. We argue that this analytic may help feminist scholars understand the complexity of texts, people, and social circumstances—both past and pre…
Art (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works)