Professor of English Dorothy J. Hale is a theorist of narrative and the novel. Her research is focused on the invention and development of Anglo-American novel theory, with an emphasis on voice, point of view, and the politics of form. Professor Hale has published Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (Stanford University Press) and The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000 (Blackwell). Recent articles related to her current book project, "Novelistic Aesthetics and the New Ethics," include "Aesthetics and the New Ethics: Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century" (PMLA, May 2009); "An Aesthetics of Alterity: The Art of English Fiction in the Twentieth Century" (in The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel, 2009); and "Fiction as Restriction: Self-Binding in New Ethical Theories of the Novel" (Narrative, 2007).