{"id":750,"date":"2026-01-13T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/?page_id=750"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:03:21","slug":"madeleine-vala","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/madeleine-vala\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Vala"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"750\" class=\"elementor elementor-750\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1be9033 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1be9033\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e37c108\" data-id=\"e37c108\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5589a6b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5589a6b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB2aWV3Qm94PScwIDAgMTAyNCAxMDI0JyB4bWxucz0naHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmcnPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-579 lazyload\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/Cybele-150x150@2x.png 300w, https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/Cybele-150x150.png 150w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/generales.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/Cybele.png\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0bf58da\" data-id=\"0bf58da\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ddd73ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ddd73ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p aria-level=\"3\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Madeleine\u00a0Aymone\u00a0Cybele\u00a0Vala<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<br \/><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mailto:madeleine.vala@upr.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">madeleine.vala@upr.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Office #240<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Extension #88873<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Madeleine\u00a0Vala\u00a0is 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\u00a0participated\u00a0in\u00a0numerous\u00a0faculty development seminars and residencies with the National Endowment for the Humanities and New York University\u2019s Faculty Resource Network. Dr.\u00a0Vala\u2019s\u00a0teaching 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\u00a0Francoise\u00a0Ghillebaert\u00a0of the volume Water Imagery in George Sand\u2019s 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.\u00a0She currently serves as the Director of Studies for Humanities with the UPR Honors Program.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madeleine\u00a0Aymone\u00a0Cybele\u00a0Vala\u00a0madeleine.vala@upr.edu\u00a0Office #240\u00a0Extension #88873\u00a0 Madeleine\u00a0Vala\u00a0is 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. 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