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William D. Melaney is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at The American University in Cairo (AUC), where he previously served as department chair (2004-2006, 2012) and remains actively involved in graduate studies.
He holds an MA in English from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stony Brook University.
His research spans Comparative Literature, Aesthetics (Kant to Rancière), Hermeneutics, and Literary Criticism, with specialized focus on Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century European Literature, Poetics, and Hegel Studies. He investigates literature-philosophy intersections through modernist poetics, allegory, and temporal frameworks, challenging continuity narratives in literary history.
Professor Melaney has published over 40 journal articles in venues like New Literary History and Journal of the History of Philosophy, alongside monographs including Figural Space: Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary (2021) and Alterity and Criticism (2017), plus the poetry collection Bildungsroman (2017).
No scientific awards were mentioned in available sources.
He supervises graduate students while developing new research on poetic reversals in literary history from the seventeenth century onward, examining how texts subvert historical continuity through rupture and transformation.
