Aaron Fogel

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Associate Professor

BA, PhD, Columbia University
BA, MA, Cambridge University


Room 333
617-358-2539

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 (1987–8)
  • Kellett Fellowship (1967–9)
  • Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching (2005)
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