Current Projects:
“Monjas en escena: El teatro en los conventos españoles de la temprana modernidad,” will appear in the catalog for the exhibit “Mujeres de ingenio: Plumas de Oro en el Siglo de las Letras,” coordinated by Esther Borrego Gutiérrez, Sponsored by the Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid, in the Casa Museo Lope de Vega, May 28-September 27, 2026.
An introduction to and edition (co-edited by Cristina A. Cowley) of Soror Maria do Céu’s first extant manuscript, the short allegory, Escarmentos de flores.
Forthcoming Articles:
“’Estas son letras también’: Chamizal Outreach and the BYU Golden Age Theater Project,” co-authored with Dale J. Pratt, will appear in the 2027 special issue of Comedia Performance on the history of the Chamizal Siglo de Oro festival.
“More Than Muses: Digital Archive as Pedagogical Tool,” co-authored with Anna-Lisa Halling, will appear in a special issue of Feminist Pedagogy on digital recovery in the classroom.
Forthcoming Book Chapter:
“Virginity and Motherhood: Mary in Christmas Plays Written and Performed by Spanish Nuns for Their Communities,” will appear in Rethinking Mary in Early-Modern Culture: Women’s Voice and the Virgin Mary in Christian Community, edited by Eleonora Carinci, to be published by Turnhout, Brepols.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Staging Gender Norms, Sexual Harrassment and Assault, and the Mujer Varonil.” Comedia Performance 21 (2024): 110-25.
“A Conjunction of Stars and a Nun’s Horoscope: Sor Francisca de Santa Teresa’s ‘Coloquio para representar en la profesión de Sor Ángela María de San José.’” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 18.2 (2024): 1-32.
“‘Streleros’ buenos y malos: Staging Astrology in Early Modern Spanish Theater.” Co-authored with Dale J. Pratt, in Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish Theater, edited by Barbara Mujica (Wilmington, DE: Vernon P, 2022), 189-205.
“Teaching the Mujer Varonil as the Wonder Woman of Early Modern Spain” in Reconsidering Early Modern Spanish Literature through Mass and Pop Culture: Contemporizing the Classics in the Classroom, edited by Mindy Badia and Bonnie Gasior (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2021), 193-208.
“Traducir las cartas de la Marquesa de Alorna (1750-1839).” Co-authored with Vanda Anastácio, in En otras palabras: género, traducción y relaciones de poder, edited by María D. Martos Pérez, Marina Sanfilippo and Mariángel Soláns García (Madrid: UNED, 2020), 29-40.
“‘La décima musa portuguesa’ and Her Soledades de Buçaco: Gendered Landscape Poetry Dedicated to the Nuns of Santo Alberto.” Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry 22.2 (2017): 145-64.
“Mentoring Spanish Theater Performance and Service Learning: The BYU Spanish Golden Age Theater Project’s Production of Guillén de Castro’s El Narciso en su opinión,” co-authored with Dale J. Pratt, in Religious and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz, edited by Susan Paun de García and Donald Larson (New York: Peter Lang, 2017), 175-87.
“Gendered Matters: Engaging Research on Early Modern Dramaturgas in the Classroom,” co-authored with Amy R. Williamsen, in Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino and Iberian Texts and Culture, edited by Leila Gómez, Asunción Horno-Delgado, Mary K. Long, and Núria Silleras-Fernández (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2015), 99-124.
“Early Modern Dramaturgas: A Contemporary Performance History,” co-authored with Amy R. Williamsen, in Remaking the Comedia: Spanish Classical Theater in Adaptation, edited by Harley Erdman and Susan Paun de García (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, 2015), 83-92.
“El convento como espacio escénico y la monja como actriz: montajes teatrales en tres conventos de Valladolid, Madrid y Lisboa” in Letras en la celda: Cultura escrita de los conventos femeninos en la España moderna, edited by Nieves Baranda Leturio and María Carmen Marín Pina (Madrid: Iberoamericana – Vervuert, 2014), 363-78.
“Comedia Scholarship and Performance: El muerto disimulado from the Archive to the Stage.” Comedia Performance 4.1 (2007): 152-78.
“Mentoring Environments and Golden Age Theater Production,” co-authored with Dale J. Pratt, in Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama, edited by Margaret Greer and Laura Bass (New York: Modern Language Association, 2006), 198-205.
“Women and Secular Theater.” Engendering the Early Modern Stage: Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire, edited by Valerie Hegstrom and Amy R. Williamsen (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1999), 107-18.
“Theater in the Convent.” Engendering the Early Modern Stage: Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire, edited by Valerie Hegstrom and Amy R. Williamsen (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1999), 211-17.
“Chaotic Night Scenes by Tirso,” in Tirso de Molina: His Originality Then and Now, edited by Henry W. Sullivan and Raúl Galoppe (Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions Canada, 1996), 113-32.
“The Bildung of Manolo and his Narrator in Alfredo Bryce Echenique’s Huerto cerrado,” in Los mundos de Alfredo Bryce Echenique, edited by César Ferreira and Ismael P. Márquez (Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1994), 97-116.
“The Fallacy of False Dichotomy in María de Zayas’s La traición en la amistad.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 46.1 (1994): 59-70.
Published Translations:
In the Caves by Emilia Pardo Bazán. Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Valerie Hegstrom. Hélice: Reflexiones críticas sobre ficción especulativa 5.1 (no. 26) (2019): 98-123.
“Four Centuries of Good Government: A Story about the Modern Age” by Nilo María Fabra. Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Valerie Hegstrom. Hélice: Reflexiones críticas sobre ficción especulativa 3.8 (no. 22) (2017): 73-83.
Valerie Hegstrom, PhD 