Mehlman, Jeffrey

Jeffrey Mehlman (born 1944, New York City) is a literary critic and a historian of ideas. He has taught at Cornell University, Yale University, and Johns Hopkins University, and is currently University Professor and Professor of French Literature at Boston University. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, CUNY Graduate Center, Washington University in St. Louis, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.