Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, 1993; M.A., French, Univ. of Minn., 1990; M.A., Comparative Literature, Univ. of Minn., 1987; B.A., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983
World Area Of Focus:
• Canada 10%-24% • International 25%-49% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 50%-74%
Languages:
• Dutch (Flemish) (limited working proficiency) • French (native/bilingual proficiency) • German (professional proficiency) • Italian (limited working proficiency) • Latin (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (limited working proficiency)
Specialization:
Early modern France; Early modern England; Twentieth-century and contemporary; French philosophy; Comparative film studies; International dimensions of twentieth-century and contemporary American literature;
Relevant Experience:
Extensive teaching and research in France, Germany, and Quebec.
Distinctions:
Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill (2012); Visiting Scholar, Institut für Romanistik, Universität Regensburg, Germany (summer 2010).
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
6
Relevant Courses Taught:
• FREN 388-389 History of French Cinema
Recent Publications:
• 2017 “Du Bellay and La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse.” In A History of Modern French Literature. Edited by Christopher Prendergast. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 137–54.
• 2017 A Modest Apocalypse. London: Eyewear, 2017. 65 pp.
• 2016 Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. xiv + 255 pp.
• 2016 “Talking about the Beat Generation.” John Tytell. The Beat Interviews: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, and Carl Solomon. N.P.: Beatdom Books, 2014. American Book Review 36.4 (May-June 2-15): 30.
• 2016 Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory. In press. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. xiv + 255 pp.
• 2016 “Deleuze, Kerouac, Fascism, and Death.” In Dead Theory: Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory. Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. 191–204.
• 2015 “La carte cinématographique du XVIe siècle: sur la route transdisciplinaire” (solicited). In Mélanges pour Tom Conley. Ed. Bernd Renner and Philip Usher. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 31–44.
• 2015 Gesa Stedman, Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England. Farnham, SRY and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. H-France Review 14 (2014), no. 208. http://www.h-france.net
• 2015 “Critiques of Early Modern Criticism: Poetics, Historicism, and the Pitfalls of Periodization” (solicited). In Criticism After Critique, ed. Jeffrey DiLeo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 127–40.
• 2015 Redesigned French Graduate Program: PhD with MA En Route.” The 2014-2015 Report on the State of the Discipline of Comparative Literature. March 16, 2015. http://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/rgp-hassan-melehy-university-north-carolina
• 2015 “Jack Kerouac’s Quest for Identity: Satori in Paris.” Studies in American Fiction. 41.1 (Spring 2014): 49-76.
• 2014 “Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos and Du Bellay’s Poetic Transformation.” In French Connections in the English Renaissance. Ed. Catherine Gimelli Martin and Hassan Melehy. In production, Ashgate Publishing. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 51–64.
• 2014 Co-edited with Catherine Gimelli Martin. French Connections in the English Renaissance. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. xii + 212 pp.
• 2014 Co-written with Catherine Gimelli Martin. “Introduction.” In French Connections in the English Renaissance. Ed. Catherine Gimelli Martin and Hassan Melehy. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 1–12.
• 2014 “Critiques of Early Modern Criticism: Poetics, Historicism, and the Pitfalls of Periodization.” In Criticism After Critique. Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 127–40.
• 2013 French Connections in the English Renaissance. Co-edited with Catherine Gimelli Martin. Ashgate Publishing.
• 2012 “The Mobility of Constancy: Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Lipsius.” REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 28: 73-91.
• 2010 “Film Fable.”. In Jacques Rancière: Key Concepts. Ed. Jean-Philippe Déranty.
• 2010 The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010
• 2008 “Descartes’s Method: The Writing of the Subject,” in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 150 (2008): 25-38. Rpt. of same title below.
• 2006 “Grand’ richesse’: Du Bellay and Marot, a Petrarchan Navigation,” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 68.3 (2006): 483-97.
• 2006 “Montaigne and Ethics: The Case of Animals” (solicited), L’Esprit Créateur 46.1 (2006): 96-107.
• 2005 “Silencing the Animals: Montaigne, Descartes, and the Hyperbole of Reason,” forthcoming, symplōke, 26 ms. pp.
• 2004 “Bodies without Organs: Cyborg Cinema of the 1980s,” in The Science Fiction Film Reader, ed. Gregg Rickman (New York: Limelight Editions, 2004), 315-334.
• 2003 “Spenser and Du Bellay: Translation, Imitation, Ruin,” Comparative Literature Studies 40.4 (2003): 415-438.
• 2001 “Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be: The Question of Simulation in Cinema,” Film Criticism 26:2 (2001-02): 19-40.
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