Fredric V. Bogel has taught in the Cornell University English Department since the 1980s, offering courses in eighteenth-century literature, critical theory, and the analysis of poetry. His research focuses on formalist criticism, modern critical theory, eighteenth-century literature, and theory of satire. He is currently writing on materialist and volitional accounts of affective and aesthetic experience in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, aesthetics, and acting theory.