Alex Woloch

Alex Woloch is department Chair. He 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 Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism (Harvard UP, forthcoming 2015) and The One vs. The Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel (Princeton UP, 2003).  He is also the co-editor, with Peter Brooks, of Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (Yale UP, 2000).

Essays and articles include:

• "Form and Representation in Auerbach's Mimesis" in Affirmations: of the modern (Vol 2.1, 2014)
• "Orwell and the Essay Form: Two Case Studies" in Republics of Letters (4.1, 2014)
• "Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch" in A Companion to George Eliot, eds. Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw (Blackwell, 2013)
• "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).

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