Noah grew up and attended college in the northeast United States, and since then has taught at a high school in Toulouse and as an outdoor educator in the mountains of Northern California, been involved in local politics in his hometown outside Boston, and traveled across the U.S. for an environmental project. His undergrad research focused on a narrative analysis of Édouard Levé’s experimental autobiographical book Suicide (2008), examining how paratextual information informs the reading of the text, as well beginning to outline a history of the suicidal artist trope. His current project revisits, interprets, and appraises the present usefulness of Guillaume Dustan’s political philosophy as outlined in later works, especially Génie Divin (2001), as documentaries of underground queer life in the late AIDS era, cogent histories of the backlash to the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and 70s in France, and audacious prescriptions for the French Republic that could provoke a renewed push toward fulfilling the Enlightenment-era promises of its Constitution. He is also working on a translation of Génie Divin for Semiotext(e).

Noah is helping to put together a series of videos that will showcase the various options for study in the humanities at UNM Albuquerque.