Noelle Bowles, Ph.D.
Department of English
Associate Professor
Campus:
Trumbull
Biography
Dr. Bowles joined KSUTC faculty in January 2001 and teaches a variety of English courses. Her primary areas of scholarship are Victorian and modern Irish literature, speculative fiction, film, and television (horror and fantasy). Her interests lie in representations of difference and monstrosity as they intersect with gender, racial, cultural, and religious identities.
Included courses taught by Dr. Bowles are:
• College Writing
• Research Writing
• Major Modern Writers
• Literature in English II
• Stories to Save the World: Literature and the Future of Humanity
• Critical Theory and Reading
• Narrative and Film
• Science Fiction
• Fairy Tales
• Literature for Young Adults
• British Literature, 1800-1900
Education
Ph.D. in English from the University of Miami (FL)
M.A. English, University of Miami (1990)
B.F.A. Graphic Design, University of Miami (1985)
M.A. English, University of Miami (1990)
B.F.A. Graphic Design, University of Miami (1985)
Publications
- “In the Shadow of the Fall.” The Wild Hunt: Pagan News and Perspectives. 22 July 2025: https://wildhunt.org/2025/07/book-review-in-the-shadow-of-the-fall.html
- “Mojo, Music, and Magic in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.” The Wild Hunt: Pagan News and Perspectives. 29 June 2025: https://wildhunt.org/2025/06/mojo-music-and-magic-in-ryan-cooglers-sinners.html
- “Netflix’s Nimona: a Story of Fluid Identity and Queer Acceptance.” The Wild Hunt: Pagan News and Perspectives. 20 Aug., 2023: https://wildhunt.org/2023/08/review-netflixs-nimona-a-story-of-fluid-identity-and-queer-acceptance.html
- “The National Leprechaun Museum is a Magical Surprise.” The Wild Hunt: Pagan News and Perspectives. 14 Jan., 2023: https://wildhunt.org/2023/01/the-leprechaun-museum-is-a-magical-surprise.html
- “Crucifix, Communion, and Convent: the Real Presence of Anglican Ritualism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Christianity and Literature 62:2 (Winter 2013): 243-258.
- “Forty Acres.” Back to the Middle of Nowhere. Eds. Jessy Marie Roberts and Jessica A. Weiss. Chadron, NE: Pill Hill Press, 2010. 189-196.
- “Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and Anglican Authority.” Christianity and Literature 56:4 (2007): 573-594.
- “A Chink in the Armour: Christina Rossetti’s The Prince’s Progress, A Royal Princess and Victorian Medievalism” Women’s Writing. Women’s Writing 12: 1 (2005): 115-125.
- “’Revenge and Recovery’: High Fantasy, Imperialism and the White Male Reader.” Images of Masculinity in Fantasy Fiction. Eds. Susanne Schoen-Fendler and Ulrike Horstmann. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. 205-223.
Awards/Achievements
- Research and Graduate Studies Summer Research and Creativity Grant, Kent State University (summer 2002) $6,500.
- Faculty Development Grant, Gettysburg College (summer 1998) $400.
- Teaching Assistant of the Year, University of Miami (Departmental Award), 1991-1992.
