Alex Woloch, Associate Professor Primary Office: 460-307 At Stanford Since: 1999 Email: woloch@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Narrative and Narrative Theory Degrees: B.A. Comparative Literature, Columbia College, 1992 M.Phil. Comparative Literature, Yale, 1995 Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale, 1998 Titles: Director of Graduate Studies in English |
Alex Woloch works on literary theory and criticism, narrative theory, and the history and theory of the novel. His teaching is focused on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and covers the broad development of the European and American novel. He is particularly interested in problems in formal analysis, the aesthetics of realism and representation, and the relationship between literary form and reference. He is the author of The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel (Princeton UP, 2003) which attempts to reestablish the centrality of characterization -- the fictional representation of human beings -- within narrative poetics. He is also the co-editor, with Peter Brooks, of Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (Yale UP, 2000). He is currently working on a study of George Orwell and the problem of engaged writing. Recent work includes "Partial Representation," in The Work of Genre: Selected Essays from the English Institute (ACLS, 2011); “Character Insecurity in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility,” in Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century Novel, eds. Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Robles (Ohio State UP, 2011); “A New Foreword" to Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly (reissued by U of Chicago Press, 2008); “Break-Ups and Reunions: Late Realism in Early Sayles,” in Sayles Talk: Essays on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles, eds. Heidi Kenaga and Diane Carson (Wayne State UP, 2005). |
