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Dorothy Noyes, Associate Professor

Center for Folklore Studies: http://cfs.osu.edu/
Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/

Office Information
308E Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: noyes.10@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-8308
Fax: 614-292-7816

Office Hours:
WI 08: W 1:30-3:30, R 2-4 and by appointment. NB: Please make an appointment by email even for regular office hours, as I will be out of town occasionally and may need to reschedule some of these.

General Background:
Dorothy Noyes (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of OSU's Center for Folklore Studies. She studies the collective representations of plural societies, with an emphasis on how intergroup relations are articulated and manipulated through traditional performance genres. Her most recent book, Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), won the 2005 Book Prize of the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Currently she is in the midst of a series of articles on intellectual property and the social organization of creativity, as well as a book project tentatively entitled Voicing Redemption: Industrial Feudalism and the Folk in Modern Europe. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, NYU, the University of Barcelona, the Inter-University Centre (Dubrovnik), Georg-August Universität (Göttingen), and most recently an Open Society Institute summer seminar at Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania). She serves on the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society and as the Chair of its Committee on International Issues. Course topics include folklore theory, performance, the cultural history of waste and recycling, festival, and fairy tale.

Comparative Studies 880 Materials