Noël Valis

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

Biography

She was raised in Toms River, New Jersey[1] and graduated from Toms River High School (now Toms River High School South) in 1964; she was inducted into the Toms River Regional Schools' Hall of Fame in 1995.[2]

She received her B.A. from Douglass College (Rutgers University) and earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and French at Bryn Mawr College. An Hon. Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, she is a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Valis is a Full Member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (an affiliate of the Real Academia Española) and a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia Española, as well as the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.[3] In 2017 she won the Victoria Urbano Academic Achievement Prize (Premio Victoria Urbano de Reconocimiento Académico), given by the International Association of Hispanic Women's Literature and Culture (Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica), for her work in Hispanic women's and gender studies.

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 Kovács Prize.[4] 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. [5] An interview with Host Laurence Sledak was recorded for Unwanted Artists on 11 March 2015 and released on 7 April 2015. It may be viewed on YouTube. [6]

She served as a member of the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2019-22). [7] In 2021, she was awarded the Cátedra Miguel Delibes/Miguel Delibes Chair and was also elected President of the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, the International Association of Galdós Scholars, for a three-year term.

Lorca After Life was the 2023 PROSE winner for Literature (Association of American Publishers).

Works

Literary/Cultural Criticism

  • Lorca After Life (Yale University Press, 2022)
  • Realismo sagrado. Religión e imaginación en la narrativa española moderna (Calambur, 2017)
  • Reading Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature. Selected Essays (Juan de la Cuesta, 2016)
  • Sacred Realism. Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative (Yale University Press, 2010)[8]
  • 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)[9]
  • Reading the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel. Selected Essays (Juan de la Cuesta, 2005)[10]
  • 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)[11]

Edited volumes

  • El vicio color de rosa. By Álvaro Retana (Renacimiento, 2023)
  • Serenata del amor triunfante. By Pedro Badanelli (Renacimiento, 2016)
  • Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War (Modern Language Association, 2007)[12]
  • In the Feminine Mode. Essays on Hispanic Women Writers (Bucknell University Press, 1990; 2nd ed., 1995) (co-ed. with Carol Maier)[13]
  • Poesías. By Carolina Coronado (Castalia / Instituto de la Mujer, 1991)[14]
  • Bocetos al temple. By José María de Pereda. In Obras completas, Vol. 3 (Tantín, 1990)
  • La hijastra del amor. By Jacinto Octavio Picón (PPU, 1990)
  • "Malevolent Insemination" and Other Essays on Clarín (Michigan Romance Studies Series, vol. 10, 1990)

Fiction and poetry

  • The Labor of Longing. A Novella (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2014)[1]
  • My House Remembers Me / Mi casa me recuerda. Poetry (Esquío, 2003)[1]

Translations

Bibliographies

  • Leopoldo Alas (Clarín). An Annotated Bibliography. Supplement I (Boydell and Brewer/Tamesis, 2002)
  • Leopoldo Alas (Clarín). An Annotated Bibliography (Grant & Cutler, 1986)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Toms River Native Releases Pine Barrens." Host Justin Louis. What's Hot. 92.7 WOBM. WOBM, Ocean County, 27 Feb. 2015. Web. 26 Mar. 2015.
  2. ^ Hall of Fame: Dr. Noel Ritter Valis, Toms River Regional Schools. Accessed November 22, 2017. "Toms River High School Class of 1964; Inducted in 1995"
  3. ^ "Noel Valis | Yale and the World". Archived from the original on 2015-09-20. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
  4. ^ "Katherine Singer Kovács Prize Winners".
  5. ^ "2015 Indie Book Awards Winners & Finalists List."
  6. ^ Interview with Noel Valis
  7. ^ Sixteen New Members Appointed to the National Council on the Humanities
  8. ^ Valis, Noël. "Sacred Realism Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative." Hipertexto 16.2012 (2010): 181-84. Web. 2 Mar. 2015.
  9. ^ "The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain - Department of Spanish and Portuguese".
  10. ^ Charnon-Deutsch, Lou (1 January 2006). "Review of Reading the Nineteenth Century Spanish Novel. Selected Essays, Noël Valis". Iberoamericana (2001-). 6 (23): 251–253. JSTOR 41676111.
  11. ^ Rogers, D. M.; Valis, N. L. M.; Valis, N. M. (1982). "The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas: A Study of "La Regenta" and "Su único hijo."". South Atlantic Review. 47 (2): 110. doi:10.2307/3199220. JSTOR 3199220.
  12. ^ Char, Prieto (1 January 2013). "Noel Valis. Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War. New York. The Modern Language Association of America, 2007". Dissidences. 5 (9).
  13. ^ Starčević, Elizabeth (1 January 1992). "Review of In the Feminine Mode: Essays on Hispanic Women Writers, Noël Valis". Modern Philology. 90 (2): 323–326. doi:10.1086/392080. JSTOR 438776.
  14. ^ Valis, Noël; Coronado, Carolina (1 April 1991). Poesías, Carolina Coronado. Castalia Ediciones.
  • 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.