James Noggle

My intellectual interests include: poetry and the history of aesthetics, particularly in 18th century English literature; the philosophy of mind; the history of skepticism; the origins and development of the novel; literary theory; Restoration comedy; ordinary-language philosophy; and film.

I was born and raised in California, educated as an undergraduate at Columbia and Cambridge universities, and in 1994, got a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley. My scholarly focus in recent years has been on relations between philosophy and literature in 18th-century British writing. My book The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists was published in 2001 by Oxford University Press. I am editor, with Lawrence Lipking, of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 1C: the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. My scholarly work has been supported by grants from American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society. I am currently completing my second book, on the temporality of taste in 18th-century British discourse.

I am the Chair of the English Department.