Mary Valentis

Artist, Athlete, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Filmmaker, Idea generator, Jewish, Writer/Editor

Mary Valentis is an associate professor of English and co-director of a humanities center at the University at Albany-SUNY. She is the author or co-author of The American Sublime, Essays in American Poetry; Techknowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities; Female Rage: Unlocking Its Secrets, Claiming Its Power (Clarkson Potter Publishers); Brave New You (New Harbinger Publications); and Romantic Intelligence, How To Be As Smart In Love As You Are In Life (New Harbinger Publications, 2003). Her writing has also appeared in Self, New Woman, and Cosmopolitan, as well as in scholarly journals and collections. She has just finished a biographical fiction novel on Edith Wharton. Mary has made guest appearances on national television and radio shows and presents seminars in New York and San Francisco with her psychologist husband. She teaches courses in American Literature and Culture, Visual Culture, Film and Psychoanalysis, and Creative Writing. She co-produced two city-wide events Why Melville Matters Now and A Celebration of the James family, and co-wrote and directed a documentary film The Albany Mummies shown on PBS.

tennis, art, architecture, self-improvement

Female rage engenders energy, passion, artistic creations

American Literature and Culture, Psychoanalysis and Film, Trauma Studies

I was writing for an academic audience that consisted of scholars and specialists. Then I reached out to the public, particularly women, and researched and published a book and articles on female rage, self-empowerment and sexuality. I teach women how to channel their anger and become self-assertive and living authentically

oil painting