Alex Woloch is Associate Professor of English at Stanford University. 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 “The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel”, which attempts to reestablish the centrality of characterization within narrative poetics. He is also the co-editor, with Peter Brooks, of “Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture.” He is currently working on a study of George Orwell and the problem of engaged writing.