 Associate Professor of EnglishOffice: Denison 229 Telephone: 303-735-5068 E-mail: Valerie.Forman@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Literature and Culture of 16th- and 17th- century England, Early Modern Drama, Early Modern Women Writers in Europe, Early Modern Caribbean, Early Modern England's relationship to the East Indies and the Levant, Early Modern England in a Global Context, Economic History, Early Modern Political Theory, and Marxist Theory.
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz, 2000
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1989
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1986
Publications
Book
Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Essays
“Transformations of Value and the Production of 'Investment' in the Early History of the English East India Company.” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 611-41
"Material Dispossessions and Counterfeit Investments: The Economies of Twelfth Night." Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism. Ed. Linda Woodbridge. Palgrave, 2003, 113-29
"Marked Angels: Counterfeits, Commodities and The Roaring Girl." Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001): 1531-1560
Selected Honors and Awards
Folger Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, 2008-2009
Faculty Fellow, CU Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts, 2006-2007
Junior Faculty Development Award, CU Boulder, 2004
Current projects
Developing New Worlds: Property, Freedom, and the Economics of Representation in Early Modern England and the English Caribbean (book)
"Depoliticizing the Economic in Shakespeare's Coriolanus." (article)
"Conjuring Sovereignties in Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan” (article)
"The Comic-tragedy of Labor in Early Modern England: A Global Story." (article)
"Labor, Liberty, and Literary Experimentation in Early Modern England and the Early Modern English Caribbean" (article)