Nicholas Dames

Nicholas Dames is the Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the editor in chief of Public Books.^[1]

His book The Chapter was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism^[2] and was the winner of the PROSE Award in Literature from the Association of American Publishers.^[3] His book Amnesiac Selves was awarded the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association.^[4]

Books

• The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton, 2023)^[5]
• The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Oxford, 2007)^[6]
• Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870 (Oxford, 2001)^[7]