Stephen Dames
Stephen Dames

Title: Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities; Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature Humanities

Institution: Columbia

Discipline: Literature & Writing

Appearances: 1

Notable: National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; PROSE Award in Literature (Association of American Publishers); Columbia Presidential Teaching Award (2005); Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching (2013); Great Teacher Award (2025); co-Editor in Chief of Public Books

Biography

Literary scholar specializing in nineteenth-century British fiction who writes and teaches on the history and theory of the novel. His book 'The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century' was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

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