Marianne Noble Professor Department of Literature
- Degrees
- PhD, Columbia University
- Bio
- Professor Noble's teaching and research interests include American literature, intimacy and the emotions, and philosophical approaches to literature. She is the author of Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson (Cambridge UP 2019) and The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton UP 2000), which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award. She co-edited Emily Dickinson and Philosophy (Cambridge UP 2013). She has recently published articles on Dickinson, Hawthorne, phenomenology, and human contact. In 2016, she was a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea.
- See Also
- Literature Department
- For the Media
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Teaching
Spring 2023
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LIT-251 Sophomore Seminar: Lit, Transgression, and Law
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LIT-340 Topics in 19th C Lit & Culture: Sympathy in 19C American Lit
Summer 2023
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LIT-121 Rethinking Literature: Beach Reads
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LIT-422 Adv Studies in Contemp Lit: Self Stories
Fall 2023
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CORE-106 Complex Problems Seminar: The Examined Life
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CORE-107 Complex Problems Seminar: The Examined Life
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LIT-340 Topics in 19th C Lit & Culture: Amer Women's Literature 19C
AU Experts
Area of Expertise
Nineteenth-century American literature; sexuality studies; women's studies; authors: Twain, Stowe, Dickinson, Warner, Whitman; sentimental and Gothic literature; fluency in French
Additional Information
Marianne Noble's teaching and research interests include American literature, culture studies, and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on the construction of sexuality in nineteenth-century American women's literature. She is the author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton University Press, 2000), which won a Choice Outstanding Book Award. She has recently published articles on Gothic and sentimental literature, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass and is currently working on a book titled Sympathy and the Quest for Genuine Human Contact in American Romanticism.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.