Thomas Pavel
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Wieboldt 409C
Phone: 773/702-8485
Email: tpavel@uchicago.edu
Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor
Professor Pavel's scholarship includes works on French 20th-century intellectual life, French 17th-century literature, literary history, and literary theory. A native of Romania, he earned his Ph.D. at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has taught at various schools in Europe, Canada and the U.S.. His books Fictional Worlds and Le Mirage linguistique have been translated into several languages. La Pensée du roman, his most recent scholarly publication, is a history of the novel from the Greek romances to the present. Professor Pavel also writes fiction in French (Le Miroir persan, La sixième branche).
Education
- Doctorat 3e cycle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1971
- M.A. in linguistics, University of Bucharest, 1962
Awards, Honors, and Professional Experience
- Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Chicago, 2007
- Order of Arts and Letters, given by the French government, 2004
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999.
- The René Wellek Prize, 1992
- Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France), 1990.
- The Jubiliary Medal of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth the Second (Canada), 1977.
Has held full time positions at Princeton University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Université du Québec à Montréal, and the University of Ottawa, and has been a visiting professor at Collège de France, Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne), l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Harvard University, and the University of Amsterdam.
Selected Courses Taught
Vie intellectuelle et vie littéraire en France au XXe siècle; Pascal;Le roman du XIXe siècle; Fiction and moral life.