James Noggle

James Noggle is an associate professor of English at Wellesley College. A member of the faculty since 1995, Professor Noggle teaches courses on eighteenth-century British literature, literary theory, and the interpretation of poetry. His own research focuses on the philosophical, cultural, and political dimensions of eighteenth-century literature and the general relation between aesthetics and literary criticism.

Professor Noggle received a B.A. degree from Columbia University in 1985, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1994. Before coming to Wellesley, he taught at Berkeley on a one-year postdoctoral fellowship.

His book, The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists was published in 2001 by Oxford University Press. He is editor, with Lawrence Lipking, of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 1C: the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. His scholarly work has been supported by grants from American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society. He is currently completing his second book, on the temporality of taste in 18th-century British discourse.

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