American academic and author
Carolyn Dinshaw is an American academic and author, who has specialised in issues of gender and sexuality in the medieval context.
Education and career.
Dinshaw was born to an Indian father, Dudley Dinshaw, a Parsi from Lucknow, and an American mother.
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."
She is the recipient of the 2017-2018 James Robert Brudner Memorial Prize at Yale University.
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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