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Susan Noakes

Susan Noakes

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612-624-0076
French & Italian
305D Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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French & Italian
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Specialties
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Specialties

  • French and Italian literature and poetry
  • Women's studies
  • Banking and economics in medieval literature
  • The Global Middle Ages
Publications
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Publications

  • Noakes, Susan. "Medieval Texts and National Identities: Dante in Red, White, Green--then Black." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (2007).
  • Noakes, Susan. Timely Reading: Between Exegesis and Interpretation. Cornell University Press, 1988.
  • Noakes, Susan, Clayton Koelb. The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice. Cornell University Press, 1988.
  • Noakes, Susan. Gracious Words: Luke's Jesus and the Reading of Sacred Poetry at the Beginning of the Christian Era. The Ethnography of Reading, University of California Press, 1992.
  • Noakes, Susan, Barbara Hanawalt. "Trial Transcript, Romance, Propaganda: Joan of Arc and the French Body Politic." (1996).
  • Noakes, Susan, Teodolina Barolini & Wayne Storey. ""Nobility, Virility, and Banking: the Crossing of Discourses in Dante's Tenzone with Forese"." Dante for a New Millenium (2002).
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Activities

Professional

  • Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation

Outreach

  • The Medieval Book in the K-12 Classroom: Develop curriculum to teach elementary and junior high students about medieval manuscript books. September 1, 2005 - April 25, 2008

Research

  • PI: Needs Analysis, Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the 'Middle Ages'. June 1, 2008 - December 30, 2008
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Courses

  • Fren 5350 - Topics in Literature and Culture: Cross-Cultural Exchange
  • Ital 4307 - Novellistica
  • French 5650 "Mise-en-valeur" in Contemporary France: the Case of St. Denis
  • Italian 5600 The Divine Comedy
  • French 8201 French Literature of the Crusades
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