Noelle Dubay designs and teaches workshops in close-reading poetry, as well as courses in American literature, queer & feminist literature, writing, editing, and public speaking.

Their dissertation, Works Like a Charm: The Occult Resistance of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, examines the use and representation of occult practices as a method of resistance to slavery.

They have served as assistant editor of The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, co-editor of the Sexualities Desk of the Open Humanities Press Blog Feedback, and co-editor of Geographies: Writings from the Baltimore Free School. They are currently an Academic Advisor with UMaine Farmington’s Johnson Scholars Program and Residential Director of The Monson Seminar. They organize This Week in Farmington, the Farmington Free School, and Queer Film Club.

Noelle is originally from Fort Kent, ME.