Melanie C. Hawthorne
Professor of French
Director of Comparative Literature Program

Office: 205 ACAD
Phone: (979)845-2124
E-mail: m-hawthorne@tamu.edu

Melanie Hawthorne did her undergraduate work in French and Philosophy at Oxford University in Britain, and received her Ph.D. from The University of Michigan. She is best known for her work on the decadent French writer Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery Vallette, 1860-1953). Her critical biography of this writer won the Scaglione Prize from French Studies from the MLA. She has also published translations of two of Rachilde's novels. She is currently completing a book about Gisèle d'Estoc called The Woman Who Didn't Exist. No one has heard of Gisèle d'Estoc. That's OK. It makes her a good topic to write about.

Areas of interest:

  • The European novel
  • Decadence, the fin de sicle, and the Belle Epoque
  • Women writers
  • Biography and lifewriting

For Curriculum Vitae, click here (PDF).