Valerie Wayne is currently at work on an edition of Cymbeline for the Arden Shakespeare, third series. A
specialist in early modern English literature, including Shakespeare and early
modern women writers, she retired from the University of Hawai‘i in 2010 but is
still active in research and working with graduate students. Her essay on “Don
Quixote and Shakespeare’s Collaborative Turn to Romance” is forthcoming in The Quest for Cardenio:
Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the “Lost Play” from Oxford University Press. Her collection of essays co-edited with Mary Ellen
Lamb, Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance,
and Shakespeare, appeared from Routledge in 2009. She is an Associate General
Editor of Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, published in 2007 by Oxford University Press, for
which she edited A Trick to Catch the Old One.
Wayne selected and introduced the writings of Anne Cooke Bacon for a volume in the series The
Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works, which appeared in 2000. Earlier publications
include an edition of Edmund Tilney’s The Flower of Friendship: A
Renaissance Dialogue Contesting Marriage (Cornell UP, 1992), and a collection of essays called The Matter of
Difference: Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare (Cornell UP and Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991). With
colleagues from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa she co-edited Joseph Keene Chadwick: Interventions and Continuities in Irish and Gay Studies (2002) and two volumes of conference proceedings on gender and culture in film and literature, East and West, Translations/Transformations and Significant Others
(both 1993).
Wayne was recently a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America, still serves on the editorial board of Shakespeare Quarterly,
and is a member of the MLA’s committee on the New Variorum Shakespeare. In 2000 she was president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Her essays
have appeared in Staging Early Modern Romance (2009), Women and Politics in Early Modern
England, 1450-1700 (2004), A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Vol. 4 (2003),
Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (2002), Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and
Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England (1999), and elsewhere. In addition to UH, she has taught at the University
of Illinois, Chicago, the University of Liverpool, the University of Kansas, and the University of Szeged in Hungary.
At the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, Wayne served as Director of the Graduate Program in English in 1994-97 and as Director of the Undergraduate
Honors Program in English in 1988-91.
Areas of Interest
early modern literature and culture, Shakespeare, early modern women writers, textual editing, feminism and culture
Awards
MLA’s Distinguished Scholarly Edition Award to the editors of Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, 2009
