Alex Woloch
Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities and Professor, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
B.A., Columbia College, New York, Comparative Literature (1992)
M.Phil., Yale University, New Haven CT, Comparative Literature (1995)
Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven CT, Comparative Literature (1998)

Alex Woloch received his B.A. and PhD in Comparative Literature. He teaches and writes about literary criticism, narrative theory, the history of the novel, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. 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 author of Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism (Harvard UP, 2016), which takes up the literature-and-politics question through a close reading of George Orwell’s generically experimental non-fiction prose. A new book in progress, provisionally entitled Partial Representation, will consider the complicated relationship between realism and form in a variety of media, genres and texts. This book will focus on the paradoxical ways in which form is at once necessary, and inimical, to representation. Woloch is also the co-editor, with Peter Brooks of Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (Yale UP, 2000).
Publications
Contact
Telephone
(650) 723-4594
Email
woloch [at] stanford.edu
Office
460-307
External Profile
Office Hours
Wednesdays 1-2:30pm & by appointment
Research Interests
Research Area(s)
Specialization(s)
British Literature-19th Century
British Literature-20th Century
Courses
Winter 2023-2024
Narrative and Narrative Theory
History and Theory of the Novel I & II
Autumn 2023-2024
Jane Austen's Fiction
History and Theory of the Novel I & II
Winter 2020-2021
Narrative and Narrative Theory
Spring 2019-2020
Doing Literary History: Orwell in the World (HISTORY 200K)
Winter 2019-2020
Dickens and Eliot
Spring 2017-2018
Narrative and Narrative Theory
Autumn 2017-2018
Readings in Close Reading