Nicholas Paige - Curriculum Vitae#

EMPLOYMENT

• 2011 - present Professor of French, UC Berkeley
  
• 2017 - 2021, 2025 - 2026 Chair of the Department of French
  
• 2012 Visiting Professor, Stanford U
  
• 2001 - 2011 Associate Professor of French, UC Berkeley
  
• 1996 - 2001 Assistant Professor of French, UC Berkeley

EDUCATION

• University of Pennsylvania, 1990-1996
  
• M.A. and Ph.D., Romance Languages—French
  
• Cornell University, 1984-1988
  
• B.A. summa cum laude with distinction in all subjects, French Literature

BOOKS

Technologies of the Novel: Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems (Cambridge, 2021).

Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel (Penn, 2011).

Translation of and introduction to Lafayette, Zayde: A Spanish Romance (Chicago, 2006).

Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France (Penn, 2001).

SELECTED ARTICLES

“Lafayette en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle: Méditations méthodologiques sur une réception manquée.” PFSCL vol. 51 (2025), 373-87.

“La Religieuse et le problème de la sensibilité.” Lecteurs et actes de lecture dans les écrits de Diderot, ed. Adrien Paschoud and Thomas Klinkert (Slatkine, 2023), 75-88.

“The Comforts of Tartuffe.” How To Do Things with Style: Essays in Honor of Joan DeJean, ed. Roland Rascevskis and Amy S. Wyngaard (French Review Book Series, 2022), 11-28.

“Histories of Fiction.” Modern Language Quarterly 82.2 (2021), 201-24.

“Pseudofactuality.” Handbook of Narrative Factuality, ed. Monika Fludernik and Marie-Laure Ryan (De Gruyter, 2020), 593-600

“The Artifactuality of Narrative Form: First-Person Novels in France, 1650-1830.” Poetics Today 39.1 (2018), 41-65.

“Examples, Samples, Signs: An Artifactual View of Fictionality in the French Novel, 1681-1830.” NLH 48.3 (2017), 503-530.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (SINCE 2022)

“What Should a Long History of Fictionality Look Like?” University of Helsinki, October 20, 2025.

“A Prolegomenon to an Antihistory of the Novel: France, Spain, and England circa 1600.” CUNY Graduate Center, September 26, 2025.

“‘Cartographier’ le roman du dix-septième siècle ... et au-delà.” NASSCFL, Lorient, June 19, 2025.

“The Scenification of the Novel in the Time of Jane Austen.” CMN ‘25 (Computational Models of Narrative), Université de Genève, May 29, 2025.

“Dividing the Archive: A New Long History of the Novel.” Dividing the Novel, University of Melbourne, Dec. 11, 2024.

“Landscape Aesthetics.” Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies, April 24, 2022.

“Comment la littérature évolue-t-elle ? Pour une histoire technologique du roman français, xviie-xixe siècles.” Université de Paris Nanterre, April 14, 2022.

RECENT HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Senior Fellow, Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley (2022-23)
  
• Enseignant invité, Université de Paris Nanterre (2022)
  
• Jessen Faculty Fellowship (2021-2024)
  
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2015-16)
  
• France/Berkeley Fund (2013-14)
  
• Louis Gottschalk Prize (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) (2013)