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Valerie Billing

  • Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow at the UC Davis Humanities Institute
314 Voorhies
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Biography:

Publication:

"'Treble marriage': Margaret Cavendish, William Newcastle, and Collaborative Authorship." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 11.2 (2011): 94-122.

Honors and Awards:

Fellowship, Bilinski Educational Foundation (Spring Quarter 2011, Summer 2011, Academic Year 2012-2013)
Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Initiative in Early Modern Studies (2011-2012)
UC Davis English Department Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship (Spring Quarter 2012)

Scholarly Interests:  Early Modern English drama and poetry; Shakespeare; women writers; gender and sexuality studies

My dissertation, titled “Big Women, Small Men: The Erotics of Size in Early Modern English Literature and Culture,” theorizes size as a performable category of identity and argues that attention to scale can change the ways we understand other categories such as gender, age, and social status. Drawing on a range of written and visual texts, including drama, poetry, letters, speeches, and paintings, I show that performances of size work as a powerful tool for both men and women in early modern literature who seek to re-work restrictive social and sexual categories.

Education & Interests:

  1. Ph.D., Early Modern English, University of California, Davis (degree expected June 2013)
  2. M.A., English, University of California, Davis (degree conferred June 2010)
  3. B.A., English, University of Illinois, (completed May 2007)

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