The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
WEBOct 1, 2024 · Updated at 10:57 a.m. ET on October 1, 2024. Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has...
Media and News – Nicholas Dames
WEBNews and Interviews. Interview in Shelf Awareness, November 17, 2023 “Why Do Books Have Chapters?”: interview with Columbia News, November 8, 2023. Profile of my spring 2020 Literature Humanities class, reading Dostoevsky in a pandemic; David Denby in the New Yorker, June 29 2020 issue
Nicholas Dames Named Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism
WEBJan 29, 2024 · Nicholas Dames, Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities, was announced as a finalist by the National Book Critics Circle for its best books of publishing year 2023.
Why Do Books Have Chapters? - Columbia News
WEBNov 8, 2023 · The Chapter: A Segmented History From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century, by Nicholas Dames, the Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities, embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognized component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time.
Nicholas Dames | The Department of English and Comparative …
WEBNicholas Dames writes and teaches on the history and theory of the novel, with particular attention to the novel in Britain and on the European continent from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Nicholas Dames - The Atlantic
WEBJul 20, 2017 · Nicholas Dames is the Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and the author, most recently, of The Chapter: A Segmented History From Antiquity to the...
Nicholas Dames - Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities, …
WEBNicholas Dames is the Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he writes and teaches on the history and theory of the novel, with particular attention to the novel in Britain and on the European continent from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Season Two: The Novel Now Podcast Hosted By Nicholas Dames
WEBMar 15, 2021 · This season, “The Novel Now,” is hosted by Nicholas Dames, the Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, an editor in chief of Public Books, and a lifelong reader and student of novels.
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the ... - Columbia News
WEBWith this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognized component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time.
Nicholas Dames | 2023/24 Faculty Distinction
WEBNicholas Dames Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for *The Chapter*