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Dr Louise Noble
Lecturer, School of English, Communication and Theatre
Qualifications
MA and PhD
Contact
| Email: | lnoble2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG36 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2918 (or +61 2 6773 2918 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Dr. Louise Noble joined the School in July 2002. She has an MA and PhD from Queen's University, Canada.
Research interests
Her major research area is early modern English literature and culture, in particular the way in which literature intersects with medical and religious constructions of the body and discourses of cannibalism. She is also interested in the relationship between literature, culture and the natural world.
She is presently revising a book length manuscript, The Healing Corpse: Medicinal Cannibalism and Early Modern English Culture, which brings literary preoccupations with the eaten body together with medical texts and religious polemic in an exploration of the cultural paradox of early modern European cannibalism. As well she is writing a book chapter on the eucharist and residual Protestant appetite in Milton's Paradise Lost. Her Master's thesis on Victorian poet Christina Rossetti draws extensively on theories of the body and feminist theory.
Publications
Noble, L, 2004, The Fille Vièrge as Pharmakon: the Therapeutic Value of Desdemona's Corpse., Disease, Diagnosis and Cure on the Early Modern Stage: Praxis and Performance, Eds. Stephanie Moss and Kaara Petersen. Burlington: Ashgate Press,
Noble, L, 2003, 'And make two pasties of your shameful heads': Medicinal Cannibalism and Healing the Body Politic in Titus Andronicus., ELH, Vol. 70, pp. 677-708,