History as a Medical Category: Heredity, Positivism, and the Study of the Past in Nineteenth-Century France

Zrinka Stahuljak is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages (2005) and Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation (2013), co-author of Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes (2011), and co-editor of Minima Memoria: Essays in the Wake of Jean-François Lyotard (2007) and Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World (2013). She is currently preparing a book on interlingual mediators in the medieval Mediterranean.