Sara Melzer

Teaching & Research Interests

• French Colonialism in the classical age
• Classical Literature and Culture
• Contemporary French Culture
• Narrative
• Women's Studies
• Communication Studies
• Understanding Contemporary France through the Classical Age

Background

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Selected Publications

• Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
• Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution, co-edited with Leslie Rabine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). Introduction by Sara E. Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine.
• From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in 17th and 18th Century France, co-edited with Kathryn Norberg (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). Introduction by Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg.
• "The French Relation and Its "Hidden" Colonial History," in Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America, ed. Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005), pp. 220-240.
• "Magic and the Conversion of 'Outsiders' into 'Insiders' in the French Empire," in Essays on Magic, ed. Amy Wygant, forthcoming from Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2005.
• "Le Nouveau Monde et La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes dans le Furetière," in Littératures classiques, Ed. Hélène Merlin, No. 47, Hiver 2003, pp.133-148.
• "L'Histoire oubliée de la colonisation française: Universaliser la 'Francité'" Dalhousie French Studies. ed. Gérard Feyrerolles. Special Issue on Literature and History. Automne, 2003, pp. 133-48.

Honors and Awards

ACLS GRANT 1999

Classes

French 217 (Spring 2007)

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