Tom Conley
Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Chair of Visual and Environmental Studies
Phone: (617) 496-6090 Fax: (617) 496-4682 E-mail: tconley@fas.harvard.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-3:45 |
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Academic Degrees: B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: Early Modern French Literature; Film and Media Studies; Intersection of Literature and Graphic Imagination
Major Publications:
An Errant Eye: Topography and Poetry in Renaissance France, forthcoming, 2010.
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, 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:
Translation and edition of Marc Augé, Casablanca: Movies and Memory, 2009.
Christian Jacob, The Sovereign Map. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Marc Augé, In the Metro, with an introduction and an afterword (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002).
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.
Réda Bensmaia, The Year of Passages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. With Afterword.
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz & the Baroque. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. With Introduction.
Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988 and 1992. With Introduction.
Selected Recent Articles:
Cahiers V.-L. Saulnier (2009).
The Cartographic Journal (2009).
L'Homme (2008).
"Getting Lost on the Waterways of L'Atalante ," in Murray Pomerance, ed., Cinema and Modernity (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2006) 253-72.
"A Writing of Space: On French Critical Theory in 1973 and its Aftermath," Diacritics 33.3-4 (2003, appearing in 2006) 189-203.
"An Eclogue Engraved: Scève & Salomon's Saulsaye (1547)," in Adrian Armstrong and Malcolm Quainton, eds, Book & Text in France, 1400-1600 (London: Ashgate, 2006). "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.
"'Un chien andalou,'" in Jeffrey Geiger and R. L. Rutsky, eds, Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (New York: Norton, 2005), 196-215.
"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.
"Cinema and its Discontents: Rancière & Film Theory," SubStance 34.3 (2005) 96-106.
“A Restive Word,” Paragraph 27 (special issue on Genet, ed. Mairéad Hanrahan, 2004) 77-84.
“A Fable of Film: Rancière’s Anthony Mann,” Sub-stance 33.1 (2004): 91-107.
“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.
“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.
“Film without a Future, “ Cinematic 1.1 (2003), 38-40.
Ronsard on Edge: ‘Les Amours d’Eurymédon et Callirée’ (1570),” The New Centennial Review 2.1 (2002), 33-54.
“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.
Book Chapters:
European Film Theory (2008).
Mélanges Jean Céard (2008).
Rhétorique et littérature en Europe de la fin du Moyen Age au XVIIe siècle (2008).
The History of Cartography 3: The European Renaissance (2007).
Cinema and Modernity (2007).
Courses Offered in 2009-2010:
French 70a. Introduction to French Literature I: The Beginning of Literary Space [spring term]
French 121. The Text of the Renaissance [fall term]
French 184. Cinema and the auteur (New Course) [spring term]
HAA 159. Image and Text in 16th Century France [fall term]
Other Courses Offered:
[French 285r. French Literature: Seminar. Montaigne ]
[Foreign Cultures 21. Cinéma et culture française, de 1896 à nos jours]
[VES 270. Proseminar in Film and Visual Studies: Film History]
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