Françoise Meltzer

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Françoise Meltzer is a professor of religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is also the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of the Humanities in French and in Comparative literature.

Contents 1 Work 2 Education 3 Bibliography 4 See also

[edit] Work

Meltzer's scholarship include work on contemporary critical theory and nineteenth-century French literature. She marshals postmodern critical theories in order to explore literary representations of the subject.

In her book Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality, she examines the ideas of originality and authorship in a series of case studies from Descartes to Walter Benjamin. In her book on Joan of Arc, she undertakes a study of that figure in relation to subjectivity as it is treated in philosophical and literary theoretical courses.

Meltzer recently co-edited a Symposium on [God] for the journal Critical Inquiry. She is presently co-editing a book on religion and postmodernist texts as well as working on a special issue of Critical Inquiry on saints in the three monotheistic religions. She is also working on two books; one about 1848 in France, and the concept of rupture from a philosophical, political, and literary point of view; the other about the gendering of subjectivity.

[edit] Education

• Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1975
• M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, San Luis Obispo, 1971
• B.A. Universitäts Freiburg in Breisgau, 1969

[edit] Bibliography

• (1987) Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Diegesis in Literature
• (1988) The Trial(s) of Psychoanalysis, sed.
• (1994) Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality
• (2001) For Fear, Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity

[edit] See also

• deconstruction
• deconstruction-and-religion
• list of deconstructionists
• weak theology