Fredric V. Bogel
Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- Yale University
Ph.D. - Dartmouth College
B.A. - Institut d’Etudes Françaises d’Avignon
Certificate
Bio
Fredric Bogel has taught in the English Department since the 1980s, when he came to Cornell as director of the restructured writing program (later, the Knight Institute). He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses mainly in eighteenth-century literature, in critical theory, and in the reading of poetry. His research has focused on Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, later eighteenth-century English literature, theory of satire, modern critical theory, and formalist criticism. He is currently at work on two books: Neoformalism: An Essay, an exploration of contemporary formalist criticism; and The Matter of Emotions: Affect and Mechanism in Eighteenth-Century Literature, a study of literature, philosophy, aesthetic theory, theories of acting, and sentimentalism that explores the ambivalent movement between materialist and volitional accounts of affective and aesthetic experience.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Eighteenth-century literature, criticism, and philosophy
- Theory of satire
- Modern critical theory
- English and American poetry
- Formalist criticism and theory
Current Projects
- Neoformalism: An Essay (book)
- The Matter of Emotions: Affect and Mechanism in Eighteenth-Century Literature (book)