Françoise Meltzer (born 1947) is a professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Meltzer's scholarship includes work on contemporary critical theory and nineteenth-century French literature.
In her book on Joan of Arc, she undertakes a study of that figure in relation to subjectivity as it is treated in philosophical and literary theoretical courses.
With Jas' Elsner, Meltzer co-edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on theories of saints and sainthood in three monotheistic religions.
She is co-editing a book on religion and postmodernist texts, and also working on two monographs; one about 1848 in France, and the concept of rupture from a philosophical, political, and literary point of view; the other about the gendering of subjectivity.