Françoise Meltzer
Mabel Greene Meyers Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and the Divinity School
Office: Harper Memorial E688
mltz@uchicago.edu
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. Her forthcoming book is on Baudelaire and visions of modernity.
Education
- MA and PhD in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1975
- Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, 1967-1969
Awards, Honors and Professional Experience
- Director, Paris Center, 2008-2009
- Elected to the Academia Europaea, 2008
- Interim Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities, 2006-2007
- Fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, 2002-2003
- Visiting professor at Berkeley and 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