Noël Valis

Noël Valis (born 24 December 1945) is a writer, scholar and translator. She is a Professor of Spanish at Yale University.

Biography

She was raised in Toms River, New Jersey. She received her B.A. from Douglass College and earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and French at Bryn Mawr College. An Hon. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, she is a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Valis is a Corresponding Member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (an affiliate of the Real Academia Española).

Her research centers on modern Spanish literature, culture, and history. The Culture of Cursilería. Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain won the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. Her translation of Noni Benegas’s poetry, Burning Cartography, was awarded the New England Council of Latin American Studies’ Best Book Translation Prize. She has also published a book of poetry, My House Remembers Me / Mi casa me recuerda, and a novella, The Labor of Longing, a Finalist for the Prize Americana for Prose and for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in both the Novella and Regional Fiction categories.

Works

Literary/Cultural Criticism

• Sacred Realism. Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative (Yale University Press, 2010)
• The Culture of Cursilería. Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain (Duke University Press, 2002; Spanish version: La cultura de la cursilería. Mal gusto, clase y kitsch en la España moderna, Antonio Machado Libros, 2010)
• Reading the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel. Selected Essays (Juan de la Cuesta, 2005)
• The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón (Bucknell University Press, 1986; Spanish version: Jacinto Octavio Picón, novelista, Anthropos, 1991)
• The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas. A Study of “La Regenta” and “Su único hijo” (Louisiana State University Press, 1981)

Edited volumes

• In the Feminine Mode. Essays on Hispanic Women Writers (Bucknell University Press, 1990; 2nd ed., 1995) (co-ed. with Carol Maier)
• Poesías. By Carolina Coronado (Castalia / Instituto de la Mujer, 1991)
• Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War'' (Modern Language Association, 2007)

Fiction and poetry

• The Labor of Longing. A Novella (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2014)
• My House Remembers Me / Mi casa me recuerda. Poetry (Esquío, 2003)

Translations

• Burning Cartography. Poetry by Noni Benegas (Host Publications, 2007; 2nd ed., 2011)
• The Poetry of Sara Pujol Russell (Susquehanna University Press, 2005)
• The Poetry of Julia Uceda (Lang, 1995)
• ''Prelude to Pleasure. [[Pedro Salinas]]']' (Víspera del gozo) (Bucknell University Press, 1993)
• Las conjuradoras. Antología bilingüe de seis poetas norteamericanas de hoy (Esquío, 1993)

Two Confessions. Essays by María Zambrano and Rosa Chacel. Translated by Noël Valis and Carol Maier (SUNY Press, 2015)

References

• Justin Louis, “Toms River Native Releases Pine Barrens-Based Novella,” Interview, WOBM Radio (Feb. 27, 2015)
• ¿Por qué España? Memorias del hispanismo estadounidense. Ed. Anna Caballé and Randolph Pope (Galaxia-Gutenberg, 2014), pp. 625–52.
• José María Martínez Domingo, Reseña (Sacred Realism), Hipertexto 16 (Summer 2012), pp. 181–84.
• Noël Valis, “On Writing in Two Languages and Other Intimacies,” Ciberletras 20 (2008)
• Carol Maier, “Prólogo / Prologue,” in My House Remembers Me / Mi casa me recuerda (Esquío, 2003), pp. 9–24.
• “Dos poetas de U.S.A.: Linda Gregg y Noël M. Valis,” Peña Labra (Santander) No. 61 (Spring 1987), pp. 9–23.
• Peio H. Riaño, "Éramos tan cursis," Público (Madrid) (12 April 2010)
• Contemporary Authors, vol. 110 (Gale Research Co., 1984), pp. 509–10.

External links

• Homepage (http://span-port.yale.edu/people/noel-valis) at Yale University
• Unwantedartists interview with author Noël Valis
• Noël Valis interview with Vaughn Radio, Madrid. March 10, 2015— part 1; part 2