Marianne Noble Professor 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). Recently, she has 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
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Spring 2024
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LIT-262 Literature & the Ethical Life
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LIT-340 Topics in 19th C Lit & Culture: Human Contact/Problem of AI
Summer 2024
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LIT-121 Rethinking Literature: Beach Reads
Fall 2024
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LIT-121 Rethinking Literature: Literature/Environment
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LIT-262 Literature & the Ethical Life
AU Experts
Area of Expertise
Nineteenth-century American literature; intimacy; sympathy, empathy, and the emotions. Authors: Stowe, Dickinson, Whitman; Melville, Hawthorne, ethical reasoning, sentimental and Gothic literature; fluency in French, competency in Spanish.
Additional Information
Prof. Noble can offer commentary on comparisons between artificial intelligence and the way it mimics human thought and learning, and the concept of human contact in a world dominated by AI. From a literary perspective, she can discuss the nature of selfhood, both on a biological level, and the human tendency of self-narration and the development of selfhood. Prof. Noble is collaborating on a database for scholars and readers about allusions in the work of Emily Dickinson, and has published an interview about Dickinson and Queer Intimacy: https://faculti.net/say-it-again-saxon-the-erotic-intimate-space-of-reading/
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.