Valerie Rohy
Valerie Rohy
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Advising
421 Old Mill
(802) 656-2117
Valerie.Rohy@uvm.edu
EDUCATION: B.A., Rice University; M.A., Ph.D.,
Tufts University
COURSES TAUGHT:
- Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
- Queer American Literature
- Critical Approaches to Literature
- Gender and Representation
- Sexual Dissidence and American Culture
PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American
literature; queer theory and LGBT studies; feminist theory; psychoanalytic
criticism.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Anachronism and Its Others: Time Lines of Race and Sexuality, forthcoming from SUNY Press (2009).
- Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2000).
- American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920, edited with Elizabeth
Ammons (New York: Penguin, 1998).
ARTICLES:
- "Fortune's Turn," forthcoming in Shakesqueer, ed. Madhavi Menon, (Duke University Press, 2009)
- "Ahistorical",: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2005).
- "On Fairy Stories," Modern Fiction Studies (2005).
- "Sexualities," in A Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865, ed. Shirley Samuels (Blackwell, 2004).
- "Smoke and Mirrors: Feminism, Figurality, and 'The Vine-Leaf,'" Genders (2003).
- 'Time Lines: Pauline Hopkins' Literary History," American Literary Realism (2003).
- "'The Long Arm' and the Law," South Central Review (2001).
- "Displacing Desire: Passing, Nostalgia and Giovanni's Room," in "Passing" and the Fictions of Identity, ed. Elaine Ginsberg (Duke University Press, 1996).
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