Jeffrey Mehlman
 University Professor; Professor of French, Department of Romance Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
B.A., Harvard University;
Ph.D., Yale University.
Professor Mehlman is a literary critic and a historian of ideas. Over a number of years, he has been writing an implicit history of speculative interpretation in France in the form of a series of readings of canonical literary works. His books include A Structural Study of Autobiography (1974), Revolution and Repetition (1977), Cataract: A Study in Diderot (1979), Legacies: Of Anti-Semitism in France (1983), Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on His Radio Years (1993), Genealogies of the Text (1995) and Émigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944 (2000). In addition, Professor Mehlman's numerous translations, beginning with his collection French Freud (1973), have played an important role in the naturalization of French thought in English. In 1994, he was appointed Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.
Office Hours: Contact 617-353-6240 or jmehlman@bu.edu.
Telephone: 617-353-6240
Email: jmehlman@bu.edu
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