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Aaron Fogel
amfogel@bu.edu
Associate Professor. B.A., Columbia; B.A., M.A. Cambridge; Ph.D., Columbia 

Teaching and Research Interests: Modern poetry and fiction; theory of dialogue; demography and literature.
Selected Publications:  The Printer's Error (2001); Coercion to Speak: Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue (1985); Chain Hearings (1976); “Wordsworth’s ‘We Are Seven’
and Crabbe’s The Parish Register,” Studies in Romanticism (2009); “Fantasias in g,” Western Humanities Review (2007);”The Nth Muse: The Image of Prose in Prose,” Western Humanities Review (2002); “Trans.: O’Hara’s Russians,” Mississippi Review (2003); “The Hoax and the Hex,” Western Humanities Review (2000); “Brueghel’s The Census at Bethlehem and the Visual Anticensus,” Representations 54 (1996); “The Blind Sailor and Mr. Buckley,” Mosaic, 1996; “The Prose of Populations,” Western Humanities Review XLVII (1993); “The Mood of Overhearing in Conrad’s Fiction,” in Joseph Conrad: Critical Assessments (1992); “The Novel of Activities,” Western Humanities Review XLI (1987); “Talk Shows: On Reading Television,” in Emerson and His Legacy (1986); “Population and Poetry,” Raritan (1982); “Pictures of Speech: On Blake’s Poetics,” Studies in Romanticism (1982); poems in The Best American Poetry, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2004.
Work in Progress:  Scenes of Census: Literature Against Demography.
Honors, Grants, and Awards: Kahn Award for The Printer’s Error (2001); Guggenheim Fellow (1987-88); Kellett Fellowship (1967-69).