Dr Louise Noble
Lecturer, School of Arts
Qualifications
BA (Hons.) 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 of Arts in July 2002. She has a BA (Hons.), MA and PhD from Queen's University, Canada.
Areas of Teaching
Louise teaches Early Modern English Literature, Feminism and Literature, and Nature Writing. She also teaches in first year English units and other writing units. As well she is the English Honours Coordinator.
Prospective Honours and Post-graduate Projects
Louise welcomes Honours and Post-graduate students interested in working in the areas of early modern literature, culture, and medicine; literature and the environment; feminism and literature; and literature and art in cultural memory.
She is the contact person for prospective Post-graduate students interested in working on the theme: Water Stories. This theme is a research component of the UNE Water Perspectives Research Group.
Research interests
Louise's research area is early modern English literature and culture with a focus on the way in which literature intersects with medical and religious constructions of the body and discourses of cannibalism. More recently she has been working on the relationship between literature, culture and the natural world both in early modern England and in post eighteenth-century Australia. Specifically she is interested in how, since European settlement, different representational forms, such as literature, music and art, have shaped the Australian cultural memory of water and what we can learn from this for the future.
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 collaborating with Dr Stephen Harris on a book project titled, Water Stories: Myths and Illusions of a Dry Continent, which offers a narrative, past and present, of the role of water in the Australian cultural imagination.
Research Groups
Louise is a member of the UNE Water Perspectives Research Group; the School of Arts, Artist in Society Research Group; and the ARC Network of Early European Research.
Publications Forthcoming
"I made you eat your parents!": South Park and Literary History." Oh My God, They Deconstructed South Park! Those Bastards! eds. Marc Leverette and Brian Cogan, Lexington Books, U.S., Critical Studies in Television Series. Forthcoming Dec. 2008.
Publications
' "Is there no meat above?": the Story of Starvation, Cannibalism, Corpse Drugs and Divine Matter in The Sea Voyage.' AUMLA, Special Issue: 'Cultural Interactions in the Old and New Worlds,' 2007, pp. 255-263.
'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, 2004.
'And make two pasties of your shameful heads': Medicinal Cannibalism and Healing the Body Politic in Titus Andronicus., ELH, Vol. 70, 2003, pp. 677-708.