Carolyn Dinshaw

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Carolyn Dinshaw is an American academic and author, who has specialised in issues of gender and sexuality in the medieval context.

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Education and career

Dinshaw was born to an Indian father, Dudley Dinshaw, a Parsi from Lucknow, and an American mother. [1] [2]

Dinshaw earned her bachelor's degree in 1978 from Bryn Mawr College and went on to graduate study at Princeton University where she earned her PhD in English Literature in 1982 with a dissertation that later became the book Chaucer and the Text.

She is currently a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English at New York University working in medieval studies and queer theory. The corpus of her work focuses on the relationship between the present and the medieval past, and in particular the ways that certain aspects of the medieval past continue to resonate in contemporary issues of gender and sexuality, the embodied experience of time, and "ecological thought." [3]

She is the recipient of the 2017-2018 James Robert Brudner Memorial Prize at Yale University. [4]

Affiliations

In addition to being a prolific scholar on a variety of topics in queer theory, medieval studies, and ecocriticism, Dishaw is one of the founding Co-Editors of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, was on the advisory board for Exemplaria (2008–13) and currently sits on the editorial board of postmedieval. She has also been the president of the New Chaucer Society (2010–12), on the Committee for Lesbian and Gay History in the American Historical Association. Dinshaw is also affiliated with the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, the Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages; the John Gower Society, Lollard Society, the Medieval Academy of America and the Modern Language Association of America.

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References

  1. Dinshaw, Carolyn (2001). "Pale Faces: Race, Religion, and Affect in Chaucer's Texts and Their Readers". Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 23 (1): 19–41. doi:10.1353/sac.2001.0013. ISSN   1949-0755. S2CID   163202085.
  2. Dinshaw, Carolyn (2012-12-14). How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time. Duke University Press. ISBN   9780822353676.
  3. Morton, Timothy. Ecological Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.
  4. "Carolyn Dinshaw Awarded the James R. Brudner '83 Memorial Prize | Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies". wgss.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-03.