College Honors and University Awards
anthology of collected works by Soror Maria do Céu, a translation of the nun’s allegory Enganos do bosque, desenganos do rio, and an edition of her earliest extant work, Escarmentos de flores. Additionally, Valerie is translating the coded letters that Leonor de Almeida Portugal, the fourth Marquise de Alorna, wrote (sometimes in invisible ink) to her father while they were both imprisoned. Valerie received a Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant (2012-2014) from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support her work on Maria do Céu. In March this year, the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater awarded her the David Gitlitz Comedia Prize in Pedagogy and Mentorship. She served as a “Founding Member” of the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) (GEMELA), as a regional delegate to the board of the Cervantes Society of America, and as an executive committee member
and chair of the MLA’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Drama Division. A recipient of three BYU Mentoring Environments Grants, she organized two College of Humanities theater festivals and collaborated with Dale Pratt to mentor the production of seven full-length Spanish plays and several shorter pieces. She has served as the coordinator of the Global Women’s Studies Program and faculty advisor to the Women’s Studies Honor Society since 2011.
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