Françoise Meltzer#
| Membership Number: | 2589 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Professor of Comparative Literature (and Chair) and Professor in the Divinity School, in the Philosophy of Religions, University of Chicago
- 1975 - 2011 Professor of the Humanities in French and Comparative Literature at the Divinity School, University of Chicago
Fields of Scholarship
- Nineteenth-century (French, German and English literature)
- Critical theory (gender studies, psychoanalysis and literature, cultural studies, philosophy of religion)
Honours and Awards
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2007 Member of Academia Europaea
- Recipient of the "Ordre des Palmes Académiques" (conferred by the French Government, May, 2006)
- 2002 - 2003 Fellow at the Franke Humanities Center
- 1992 Member of International Jury for Belgian Francqui Prize
- 1976 Essay ofthe Year Award from the Illinois Council ofthe Arts
- 1969 Ford Foundation Grant, "Specia1 Career Fellow," for five years of graduate study
