Dorothy Noyes
Associate Professor
Departments of English, Comparative Studies, and Anthropology
Director, Center for Folklore Studies
104A Mershon Center
614.292.8683
noyes.10@osu.edu
Education
B.A., Indiana University, Department of English (1983)
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife (1987)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife (1992)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Noyes is a folklorist who studies the collective representations of plural societies, the social organization of vernacular creativity, and the history of international cultural regimes. Her primary fieldwork is in Catalonia but she likes to travel. She teaches courses in folklore theory, performance theory, festival, cultural regimes, and the cultural history of trash.
Selected Publications
"Humble Theory" (Grand Theory, special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research, 2008)
"Cultural Warming? Brazil in Berlin," in Cultural Politics and the Politics of Culture, ed. by Helen Fehervary and Bernd Fischer (German Life and Civilization, Peter Lang, 2007)
"Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Making of Heritage," in Prädikat Heritage. Wertschöpfungen aus kultureller Ressourcen, ed. by Dorothee Hemme, Markus Tauschek, and Regina Bendix (Lit Verlag, 2007)
"The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership" (Cultural Analysis, 2006)
"Waiting for Mr. Marshall: Spanish American Dreams," in The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism After 1945, ed. by Alexander Stephan (Berghahn, 2006)
"Rites de liberté, rites de contrainte: fête populaire et transition politique en Catalogne dans les années 1970" (Bulletin d’histoire politique, 2005)
Folklore Abroad: The Diffusion and Revision of Sociocultural Categories (edited special issue, Indian Folklife, 2005)
"Folklore," in The Social Science Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., ed. by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper (Routledge, 2004)
"Alias ‘Yusuf Galán’: Neighbors, Sleepers, and the Violence of Recognition in Urban Spain" (Ethnologia Europaea, 2003)
Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003)
"Group," in Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture, ed. by Burt Feintuch (University of Illinois Press, 2003)
"Authoring the Social Drama: Suicide, Self, and Narration in a French Political Scandal" (Narrative, 2000)
"In Modern Dress: Costuming the European Social Body, with Regina Bendix (edited special issue, Journal of American Folklore,1998)
Honors, Awards, and Service
Executive Board, Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (2008-12)
Editorial Board Member, Western Folklore (2008-10)
Member, Editorial and Advisory Boards, and initiator of H-Folk: H-Net Discussion List for Folklore and Ethnology (2008)
Advisory Board, "Midnight Robbers: The Artists of Notting Hill Carnival," exhibition funded by the Mayor of London and the Arts Council of England at City Hall, Greater London Authority; OSU Urban Art Space, Columbus; touring thereafter (2007)
Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Fellows of the American Folklore Society Book Prize for Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (2005)
Fellow, American Folklore Society (elected 2005); Executive Board (2004-06); Chair, Committee on International Issues (2000-06)
Mershon Projects
After the New Counterinsurgency Doctrine: Shifting Paradigms of Intervention and the Legacy of the Modern State, with Margaret Mills (2009)
The Race in Culture: Ethnology and Empire in the Long Twentieth Century, with Alice Conklin (2008-09)
Culture Archives and the State: Between Socialism, Nationalism and the Global Market, with Margaret Mills (2007)
Convivencia: Performance, Public Space, and Democratization in Plural Societies (1999-2002)
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Dorothy
Noyes
Associate Professor of English, Comparative Studies, and Anthropology
The Ohio State University
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