Join us in congratulating professor Carolyn Dinshaw on her appointment as dean for humanities effective September 1st 2018. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College (A.B.) and Princeton (Ph.D.), Carolyn has been at NYU since 1999 and is a Silver Professor in the Departments of both Social and Cultural Analysis and English. Carolyn’s research focuses on English and Western European medieval literature and culture, particularly concerning gender and sexuality; theories of history and historiography; theories and experiences of temporality; ecology and environmentalism; and the history of maps and mapping.
She is founding co-editor of the flagship journal in LGBTQ studies, GLQ. At NYU she founded and directed the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality from 1999 – 2005, and she served as Chair of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis from 2012-2015. Among her many awards and honors, Carolyn has been the recipient of the James Robert Brudner Class of 1983 Memorial Prize in LGBT Studies, Yale University; the Distinguished International Visiting Fellowship, Center of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Australia Research Council; the John Edward Taylor Fellowship, University of Manchester, UK; and she served as the President of the New Chaucer Society from 2010-2012.
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