Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies (on leave 2007-2008 )
- Office:
Boylston Hall 509
- Office
hours fall term 2008-09: to be announced.
- Phone:
617-496-6090
- E-mail:
tconley@fas.harvard.edu
NOTE:
during the summer of 2008, Prof. Conley can be contacted by
email or by post at: 7655 Hoffman Road, Buyck Station, Orr,
MN 55771 |
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Academic
degrees: B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Interests:
Early Modern French Literature; Film and Media Studies; Intersection
of Literature and Graphic Imagination
Major
Publications
- The
Sovereign Map (A translation of Christian Jacob, L'Empire
des cartes ) University of Chicago Press, 2006 .
- Cartographic Cinema. University of
Minnesota Press, 2006.
-
L'Insconscient graphique (Paris: PUV, 2000), a French
edition of The Graphic Unconscious.
- co-editor
of The World and its Rival: Essays in Honor of Per Nykrog
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999).
- The
Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
- The
Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing. Cambridge
Studies in French. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University
Pres, 1992.
- Film
Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
- Co-editor
of Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century
France. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press,
1996.
Major
Translations
- Réda
Bensmaia, The Year of Passages. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1995. With Afterword.
- Michel
de Certeau, The Writing of History. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1988 and 1992. With Introduction.
- Michel
de Certeau, The Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings.
Minneappolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. With Afterword.
- Michel
de Certeau, Culture in the Plural. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1997. With Afterword.
- Gilles
Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz & the Baroque. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1993. With Introduction.
- Marc
Augé, In the Metro, with an introduction and
an afterword (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002).
- Christian
Jacob, The Sovereign Map. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2006.
Selected Recent
Articles
"The Essays and the New World," in Ullrich Langer, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005) 74-95.
"Vespucci face à l'Amérique: Une scène de géographie," in: Cristina Capineri, ed., Memorie geografiche , supplement to the Revista Geografica Italiana, Conoscere il mondo: Vespucci e la modernità (Florence: Società di studi geografici, 2005) 9-22.
"An Eclogue Engraved: Scève & Salomon's Saulsaye (1547)," in Adrian Armstrong and Malcolm Quainton, eds, Book & Text in France, 1400-1600 (London: Ashgate, 2006), forthcoming.
"'Un chien andalou,'" in Jeffrey Geiger and R. L. Rutsky, eds, Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (New York: Norton, 2005), 196-215.
"Getting Lost on the Waterways of L'Atalante ," in Murray Pomerance, ed., Cinema and Modernity (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2006) 253-72.
"Des Périers on Speed," The Early French 'Nouvelle' , ed. David Laguardia and Gary Ferguson, Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe: Arizona State University, 2005) 35-58.
"A Writing of Space: On French Critical Theory in 1973 and its Aftermath," Diacritics 33.3-4 (2003, appearing in 2006) 189-203.
"Cinema and its Discontents: Rancière & Film Theory," SubStance 34.3 (2005) 96-106.
“Montaigne
moqueur: ‘Virgile’ and its Geographies of Gender,” in Kathleen Perry Long, ed., High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis
in Early Modern France (Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2002),
93-106.
“Un
tombeau de mélanges: Les “Epistres de l’amant
vert” dans le livre imprimé des Illustrations de
Gaule et singularitez de Troie (1512-1513),” in Dominique
de Courcelles, ed., Ouvrages miscellanées & Théories
de la connaissance à la Renaissance (Paris: Ecole des
Chartes, Coll. Etudes et rencontres 12, 2003), 79-101.
“The
City Vanishes,” in Joan-Ramon Resina and dieter Ingenscheay,
eds., Aftereffects of the City (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003),
209-23.
“End-Credits,”
in Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison, eds., Scientific Authorship:
Credit and Intellectual Property in Science (New York: Routledge,
2003), 359-67.
“A
Matter of Figure and Fact,” afterword to Gilles Deleuze,
Francis Bacon, tr. by David Smith (Minneapolis: U of MN
P, 2003), 130-49.
“Ronsard
on Edge: ‘Les Amours d’Eurymédon et Callirée’
(1570),” The New Centennial Review 2.1 (2002), 33-54.
“Conspiracy
Crisis,” Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture
& Politics 14 (2003): 47-60.
“From
Detail to Periphery: All French Literature is Francophone,”
Yale French Studies n. 103 (“French & Francopone:
the Challenge of Expanding Horizons,” ed. Farid Laroussi
& Christopher Miller, 2003), 166-76.
“A
Restive Word,” Paragraph 27 (special issue on Genet,
ed. Mairéad Hanrahan, 2004) 77-84.
“Film
without a Future, “ Cinematic 1.1 (2003), 38-40.
“A Fable of Film: Rancière’s Anthony Mann,”
Sub-stance 33.1 (2004): 91-107.
Courses
Taught 2008-2009:
Foreign Cultures 21. Cinéma et culture française, de 1896 à nos jours (fall)
HAA 159. Image and Text in 16th Century France (fall)
French 70a. Introduction to French Literature I: The Beginning of Literary Space (spring)
VES 270. Proseminar in Film and Visual Studies: Film History (spring)
Other courses taught:
[ French 121. The Text of the Renaissance ]
[ French 285r. French Literature: Seminar. Montaigne ]
For
more information go to the
Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences course catalogue
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