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Dorothy Noyes is a College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Studies. Her research focuses on political performance, the traditional public sphere in Europe, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Her scholarship examines how shared symbolic forms and indirect communication enable coexistence in socially conflicted contexts, alongside theoretical contributions to folklore studies and international cultural policy. Current projects include Exemplary Failures: Gesture and Emulation in Liberal Politics and co-editing The Global Politics of Exemplarity with Tobias Wille.
Recent publications analyze symbolic politics, mediated transmission, and interdisciplinary knowledge-making. She has held leadership roles such as President of the American Folklore Society (2018–2019) and will direct Ohio State's Mershon Center for International Security Studies starting in summer 2022.
- Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership
- Ohio State Distinguished Scholar Award (2021)
- Honorary Doctorate from University of Tartu (2019)
Noyes collaborates with international researchers in interdisciplinary groups like ConTrust, contributing reflexive frameworks for managing trust and suspicion in collaborative knowledge production.
