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Thomas Pavel

Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, Fundamentals, and Creative Writing Thomas Pavel

Area of Study

John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought

Thomas Pavel

Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, Fundamentals, and Creative Writing

Professor Pavel is working on a book about the way in which literature understands human action and its moral requirements. His teaching interests are the history of the novel, 17th-century French literature, 20th-century French literature and intellectual life, as well as the interactions between literature and philosophy. 

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