Professor Emeritus of French, Romance Studies Department
Jeffrey Mehlman is the author of Legacies of Anti-Semitism in France(University of Minnesota Press, 1983); Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on His Radio Years (University of Chicago Press, 1993);Genealogies of the Text (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Emigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); and, most recently, a memoir,Adventures in the French Trade: Fragments toward a Life (Stanford University Press, 2010). He is also the translator of Bredin’s classic history of the Dreyfus Affair, The Affair(Braziller, 1986) and Vidal-Naquet’s study of Holocaust denial, Assassins of Memory (Columbia University Press, 1992).