Susan Noakes
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Department of French and Italian |
Statement of Interests
Susan Noakes teaches and writes about the transformations of literary ideas and form in the period 1250-1550. She has written widely on the history and theory of interpretation, including the history of books, the development of humanist teaching, and the relation of interpretation and ideology. Her recent graduate courses include "The Medieval Tale," "Framing the 'Other': Literature of the Crusades," "Gender and Poetry," "Earlier Women Writers," and "The Development of the Humanist Library." She is currently working on the relation between discourses of gender and economics, especially in Dante and Boccaccio.
Publications
Books
Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation (Cornell University Press, 1988).
The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice (with Clayton Koelb), ed. (Cornell University Press, 1988), including essay, "On the Superficiality of Women."
Articles
"Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era," in J. Boyarin, ed., The Ethnography of Reading (University of California Press, 1992).
"Trial Transcript, Romance, Propaganda: Joan of Arc and the French Body Politic" (with Barbara Hanawalt), Modern Language Quarterly, (1996).
"“Dante e lo sviluppo delle istituzioni bancarie a Firenze: ‘i subiti guadagni’” in Michelangelo Picone, ed., Dante: Da Firenze all’aldilà, Atti del terzo Seminario Dantesco Internazionale, Firenze, 2000, Firenze: Franco Cesati, 2001, pp. 249-261.
“Virility, Nobility, and Banking: The Crossing of Discourses in Dante’s Tenzone with Forese,” in Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey, eds., Dante 2000: Themes and Problems, New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2004, pp. 241-258.
“Pétrarque polémiste anti-commercial?: ses portraits d’Avignon et de Venise,” Actes du colloque international, janvier 2004, Musée Pétrarque et Université d’Avignon et al., ed. Eve DuPerray, 2005.