Mark Noble specializes in American literature and philosophy from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His research and teaching interests also include the history of religion in America, the philosophy of science, critical theory, and American pragmatism. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2001 and his doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2009. He is currently at work on a book project, The American Atom: Materiality and Poetic Vocation from Whitman to Stevens, which examines poetic attempts to rethink personhood using the terms of both contemporary science and classical materialism.

Selected Publications:

"Whitman's Atom and the Crisis of Materiality in the Early Leaves of Grass." American Literature 81.2 (2009): 253-279.

"Emerson's Atom and the Matter of Suffering." Nineteenth-Century Literature 64.1 (2009): 16-47.