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Staging
Early Modern Romance (2009)
ThomasMiddleton:TheCollected
Works (2007)
The Flower of Friendship: A Renaissance Dialogue
Contesting Marriage (1992)
The Matter of Difference: Materialist Feminist
Criticism of Shakespeare (1991)
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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, her collection of essays co-edited
with Mary Ellen Lamb, Staging
Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare, has just appeared
from Routledge. She is also an Associate General Editor of The
Collected Works of Thomas Middleton which was published in
2007 by Oxford University Press and 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 Manoa
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 is a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America,
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 most recent 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. IV (2003), Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (2002),
and Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s
Alliances in Early Modern England (1999). 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, Manoa, Wayne teaches
courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, research methods for
honors and
graduate students, early modern women writers, and introductory
courses on literature, writing, and the study of English. She served
as Director of the Graduate Program in English in 1994-1997 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 Education
BA, DePauw University
MA, PhD, University of Chicago Awards and Honors
Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America, 2007-2010
Folger Shakespeare Library Senior Fellowship, 2003
Board of Regents’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1985
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature Excellence in
Teaching Award, 1985
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