Margaret "Peggy"[1] Waller (born 1954)[2] is an American scholar of 19th-century French literature. She is the Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professor of Humanities and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College in Claremont, California.[3]
Waller graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University in 1976 with a degree in French. She then earned a doctorate in French from Columbia University, finishing in 1986.
Waller's works include a translation of Revolution in Poetic Language, a book by Julia Kristeva, and The Male Malady: Fictions of Impotence in the French Romantic Novel, published in 1993.[4]