Hassan Melehy Associate Professor of French At UNC since 2004 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1993 M.A., University of Minnesota, 1990 M.A., University of Minnesota, 1987 B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983 Telephone: 919-962-1029 Email:hmelehy@unc.edu Mailing Address: 224 Dey Hall, CB#3170 Dept of Romance Languages & Literatures UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170

Synopsis: Hassan Melehy specializes in early modern French and comparative literature, contemporary critical theory, and film studies. His publications include Writing Cogito: Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject (SUNY Press, 1997), "Spenser and Du Bellay: Translation, Imitation, Ruin" (Comparative Literature Studies, 2003), and "Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be: The Question of Simulation in Cinema" (Film Criticism, 2001-02). He is currently at work on a book addressing poetics and representation in early modern France and England. In 2002, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Romance Languages at Harvard University.