Madeleine Aymone Cybele Vala
madeleine.vala@upr.edu
Office #240
Extension #88873
Madeleine Vala is Professor of English in the College of General Studies at UPR-RP. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a BA from Duke University, and is the recipient of two Fulbright scholarships to the University of Antwerp, Belgium and the University of Leipzig, Germany. She has participated in numerous faculty development seminars and residencies with the National Endowment for the Humanities and New York University’s Faculty Resource Network. Dr. Vala’s teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century British and American literature, poetry, material culture, and migrant literature. She has published articles on Edith Wharton, Henry James, the Victorian supernatural, and is the editor with Francoise Ghillebaert of the volume Water Imagery in George Sand’s Work (2018). At the UPR, she teaches the Honors English first-year literature and writing sequence, as well as undergraduate courses on travel literature, poetry, and Victorian literature. She currently serves as the Director of Studies for Humanities with the UPR Honors Program.