College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3178
Email: cnoble@apu.edu
Office Location: Faculty Quad #8
Office Hours: Wed., 12-2 p.m.; also by appointment

Christopher Noble, Ph.D., received his undergraduate degrees in English and philosophy from Westmont College. He was awarded a Pew Younger Scholars Fellowship and pursued graduate work at the University of California, Irvine, where he specialized in 19th century British literature and literary criticism. Noble has presented papers at numerous conferences in the United States and Canada, and has published scholarly work in the journals Christianity and Literature and Victorian Studies. Currently an assistant professor at Azusa Pacific University, Noble regularly teaches courses in composition, British literature, and critical theory.

Ph.D. - English Literature, University of California, Irvine, 2000
M.A. - English Literature, University of California, Irvine, 1996
B.A. - English and Philosophy, Westmont College, 1994

Publications
"A Transcendent and Pragmatic Vision: Coleridge at the Borders of Christian Orthodoxy," Christianity and Literature 48.1 (Autumn 1998): 29-43.

Review of Cynthia Curran’s When I First Began My Life Anew: Middle-Class Widows in Victorian Britain. Victorian Studies 44.3 (Spring 2002): 519-521.

Pew Graduate Fellowship
APU Faculty Research Grant

Romantic literature
Victorian literature
Literary theory