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Tom Conley

Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies

  • 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
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 ]

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    Last updated on July 8, 2008