Marcia Noe

Marcia Noe teaches courses in American literature and women's studies at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland, Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre, The Innocent Midwest: Culture, Region, and Identity, 1793-1930, and over seventy other publications on this Midwestern authors and topics. In 1993 she was Fulbright Senior Lecturer-Researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; with Junia C.M. Alves, she has edited a collection of essays on the Brazilian theatre troupe Grupo Galpao (Editora Newton Paiva, 2006). She is a senior editor of The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, volumes one and two, publications of The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, who gave her the MidAmerica Award for distinguished contributions to the study of Midwestern literature in 2003. In 2004 she won the UTC College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher award and is an elected member of UTC's Council of Scholars and Alpha Society. She currently serves as a member of The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature’s corporate board and as First Vice-President of the League of Women Voters of Chattanooga.