Françoise Meltzer
Françoise Meltzer is Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of French and Divinity at the University of Chicago. Her new project examines the notion of rupture (in history, philosophy, architecture and literature) as read in the events surrounding 1848 in France.
Selected Publications:
- Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
- Ed. The Trial(s) of Psychoanalysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
