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College of Arts and Humanities

John Beynon

Professor

English | 559.278.2240 | Office: PB 458

jbeynon@csufresno.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside
  • M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Utah

Courses Taught

Dr. John C. Beynon teaches courses in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and culture, queer theory, and in lesbian and gay literature. He co-edited Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century (Ashgate 2010) and has published essays on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, William Beckford, Daniel Defoe, and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Currently, he is working on a project that explores tea-drinking culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Dr. Beynon became the English M.A. coordinator in spring 2015.