Noël Valis


Noël Ritter Valis is a writer, scholar and translator. She is a Professor of Spanish at Yale University.

Biography

She was raised in Toms River, New Jersey and graduated from Toms River High School in 1964; she was inducted into the Toms River Regional Schools' Hall of Fame in 1995.
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 Full Member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española and a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia Española. In 2017 she won the Victoria Urbano Academic Achievement Prize, given by the International Association of Hispanic Women's Literature and Culture, 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 Kovacs Prize. Her translation of Noni Benegas's poetry, , 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, , a Finalist for the Prize Americana for Prose and for the in both the Novella and Regional Fiction categories.
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.
On 1 August 2019, the United States Senate confirmed her presidential appointment to the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Works

Literary/Cultural Criticism

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