Professor Noah Guynn, who joined the UC Davis faculty in 1998, has accepted his appointment as Associate Dean of Faculty for Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies in the College of Letters and Science. Guynn has been serving in the role as interim associate dean of faculty since earlier this year. 

Guynn is a professor of French and comparative literature and is a specialist in medieval and early modern literature, theater, and culture. He has written several books, many articles and translations on sexuality, gender, violence and ethics in the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on France. His books include Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages and Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce. He is also coeditor, with Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University), of a special issue of Romanic Review entitled Category Crossings: Bruno Latour and the Middle Age, and with Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA), of an edited volume entitled Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World.

His honors and awards include the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award and the Martin Stevens Award for the Best New Article in Early Drama Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. He’s also been awarded the ASUCD’s Excellence in Education Award. 

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