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 (forthcoming in 2026 from Ohio University Press); and over twenty other publications on Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell.

In 1993 she was Fulbright Senior Lecturer-Researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She received the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature’s 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 recently completed a term on the board of Girls Inc. of Chattanooga and currently sits on the boards of the League of Women Voters of Chattanooga and The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.