Carolyn Dinshaw Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis , English Ph.D. 1982, (English literature), Princeton; A.B. 1978, Bryn Mawr College. Email:

Areas of Research/Interest: Medieval literature and culture; feminist studies; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies; history of sexuality; theories of history and historiography; mysticism; theories and experiences of temporality

External Affiliations: Editorial Advisory Board, A History of British Women's Writing; Board of Directors, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY (2001-07); Medieval Academy of America; New Chaucer Society (Trustee, 1998 - 2002); Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship; Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages; Committee for Lesbian and Gay History, AHA; John Gower Society; Lollard Society; Modern Language Association of America (Chaucer Division Executive Committee, 1992-7)

Fellowships/Honors: Distinguished Editor Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals; MLA Crompton-Noll Award, Special Citation; MLA Crompton-Noll Award for "Getting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Gawain, Foucault"; Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center; President's Fellowship, University of California; Medieval Academy, John Nicholas Brown Prize for Chaucer's Sexual Poetics

Select Publications:

"Born Too Soon, Born Too Late: The Female Hunter of Long Eddy, circa 1855." In 21^st-Century Gay Culture. Ed. David A. Powell. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Pp. 1-12.

"Are We Having Fun Yet?" New Medieval Literatures 9. Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2008 (for 2007).

"Temporalities."  In Twenty-first Century Approaches: Medieval. Ed. Paul Strohm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"Medieval Feminist Literary Criticism." Cambridge History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Ed. Susan Sellers and Gill Plain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 11-26. 

"Touching on the Past." In The Boswell Thesis: Essays for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Ed. Matthew Kuefler Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 57-73. 

"The History of GLQ, Volume One: LGBT Studies, Censorship, and Other Transnational Problems." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 12 (2006): 5-26. 

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing. Ed. Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace.  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 

"Pale Faces: Race, Religion, and Affect in Chaucer's Texts and Their Readers," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23 (2001): 19-41. 

"Got Medieval?" Response to "History's Queer Touch: A Forum on Carolyn Dinshaw's Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern." Journal of the History of Sexuality 10 (2001): 202-212. 

Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern.  Series Q.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.  

Chaucer's Sexual Poetics.  Madison, WI and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.  

Chaucer and the Text: Two Views of the Author.  New York and London: Garland Press, 1988.