Valerie Rohy

BIO

Val Rohy teaches and studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, queer theory, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic theory. She studied at Tufts University (Ph.D. 1997) and Rice University (B.A. 1988). Before arriving at UVM, she taught at Bowling Green State University in Ohio; she has been at UVM since 2002. She has published essays on James Weldon Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, María Cristina Mena, H.D., Edgar Allan Poe, James Baldwin, Alison Bechdel, Walt Whitman, and Pauline Hopkins.

Courses

• Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
• Ameriican Literature Survey II
• Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein
• Literary Theory
• Sexuality and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America
• Feminist Theory
• Sexual Dissidence and American Culture
• Queer Literature and Criticism
• Race and Sexuality in American Culture
• A Queer Decade: Literature, Theory and Film since 2000
• Women Writing Women

Graduate: 

• Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory
• American Fiction’s Darker Past: Race and Sexuality
• Queer Temporality and Literature
• Queer American Literature

Publications

Valerie Rohy Publications (DOCX)

Awards and Achievements

• 2019 University Scholar Award, University of Vermont
• 2015 Tufts University Graduate Alumni Award: Outstanding Career Achievement
• 2012 Dean's Lecture Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Vermont
• 2012 Twentieth-Century Literature Andrew J. Kappel Prize for best essay of the year ("Hemingway, Literalism, and Transgender Reading")
• 2009 LGBTQA Faculty Leadership Award, University of Vermont
• 2006 Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Vermont
• 2004 LGBTQA Faculty Leadership Award, University of Vermont
• 2003 Dean’s Fund for Faculty Development grant, University of Vermont
• 2003 Weinstock Service Award, University of Vermont
• 2003 Outstanding Program Advisor, Living/Learning Center, University of Vermont
• 2000 SCMLA Prize for best paper in Gender Studies ("The Long Arm and the Law")
• 1988-92 Graduate program fellowship, Tufts University

Area(s) of expertise

19th and 20th-century American literature, LGBT literature, critical theory, Feminist theory, Queer theory, psychoanalytic theory, and narrative.