Nancy Noble

M.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1995; Doctoral Studies, Delaware

Nancy Noble is Senior Lecturer in History of Art & Architecture and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Since 2009, she has developed and taught numerous specialized courses on art of the United States from the colonial period to the 1960s. Her most recent courses include investigations of the intersection of art, modern popular culture, and mass media in the early 20th century; gender and art in late 19th and early 20th century U.S.; and an introduction to digital art history practices. Her research focuses on gender and the development of the role of the artist in nineteenth-century U.S. culture. She recently co-curated an exhibition of women artists from the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art and curated the St. Joseph University Art Museum exhibition, “Where Are the Women? Rediscovering the Origins of Connecticut Women Artists."

Research Areas

• American Art

Publications

• Sherry Buckberrough and Nancy Noble.  WomenArtists@NewBritianMuseum.  New Britain, CT:  New Britain Museum of American Art; distributed by University Press of New England, 2010. 
• Nancy Stula and Nancy Noble.  American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration:  Selections from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum.  New London, CT:  Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2004. 

Courses Recently Taught

• ART-HIST 110:  Introduction to the History of Art:  Renaissance to the Present
• ART-HIST 328:  American Art to 1860
• ART-HIST 329:  American Art, 1860-1940
• ART-HIST 370:  Junior Year Writing:  American Landscape Art
• ART-HIST 382:  Great Themes in Art: Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, & the Nabis
• ART-HIST 398:  Practicum:  Careers for Art History Majors
• ART-HIST 415:  Methods in Art History:  Museum Studies