Françoise Meltzer
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Harper Memorial 688
Phone: 773/702-8474
Email: mltz@uchicago.edu
Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and the Divinity School
Professor Meltzer's scholarship includes work on contemporary critical theory and nineteenth-century French literature. A native of France, she studied in Germany before receiving her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity, which explores the gendering of subjectivity from within the context of Joan of Arc's trial. As a comparatist, Meltzer integrates German and English literature into her work as well as French. She is presently finishing two books, one on "Ungendering Subjectivity"; the other on the Revolution of 1848 in France.
Education
- M.A. and PhD in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1975
- Universitäts Freiburg in Breisgau, 1967-9
Awards, Honors and Professional Experience
- Fellow at the Franke Institute, 2002-3.
- Interim Director 2006-7
- Visiting professor at Berkeley and at Cornell Universities.
- Co-editor of Critical Inquiry since 1982.
Selected Courses Taught
La Révolution de 1848: Baudelaire, Flaubert, Hugo; Mallarmé Benjamin, Blanchot and Bataille; Survey of Critical Theory; Proust; Jeanne d'Arc.