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Verena Conley

Long Term Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures

  • Office: Dana Palmer 202
  • Phone: (617) 495-9712
  • Fax: (617) 496-4682
  • Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00-5:00, and by appointment
 
Academic Degrees: Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests: 20th-Century French Literature; Critical and Cultural Theory; Gender Studies; Problems of Ecology and Technology.

The War Against the Beavers: Learning to Be Wild in the North Woods (Minnesota, 2005)		  
Major Publications:
Fictional Spaces: Space, Globalization and Subjectivity in Contemporary French Thought (in progress)

Littérature, Politique et communisme: Lire "Les Lettres françaises," 1942-1972 (New York: Lang, 2005)

The War with the Beavers: Learning to be Wild in the North Woods (Minnesota, 2003; 2005)

Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought (Routledge, 1997)

Rethinking Technologies, ed. (Minnesota, 1993; 1997)

Hélène Cixous (Toronto, 1992)

Hélène Cixous, Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector and Tsvetaeva, ed., trans and introduced (Minnesota, 1991).

Hélène Cixous, Reading with Clarice Lispector, ed., trans. and introduced (Minnesota, 1990).

Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine (Nebraska, 1984; 1991)
Some Recent Articles:
"Chaosmopolis," Theory of Culture and Society 19, 1-2 (2002), special issue on "Cosmopolis,"185-198.

"Processual Practices," Southern Atlantic Quarterly, 100.2 (Spring 2001), special number on Michel de Certeau, 483-500.

"The Passenger: Paul Virilio," Theory of Culture and Society 16, 5-6 (October-December 1999); reprinted in Paul Virilio (Sage, 2000).

"Whither the Virtual: Slavoj Zizek and Cyberfeminism," in Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 4. 2 (1999), 129-137.

"Becoming Woman Now," in Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook eds. (Edinburgh, 2000), 18-37.

"Hommage à Hélène Cixous," in H.C., Croisées d'une oeuvre (Galilée, 2001), 343-352.
 

 
Courses Offered in 2009-2010:
 French 70b. Introduction to French Literature II: Politics of Aesthetics from 1800 to the present [fall term]
French 167. Parisian Cityscapes [spring term]
Literature 104. On Theory [fall term]
Literature 150. Colonial and Post-Colonial Spaces: France-North Africa [spring term]
Other Courses Offered:
[French 170. The City]
[French 271. Legacies of Poststructuralism: An Introduction]
[French 273. Globalization and French Culture]
[Literature 143 (formerly *Literature 136). Writers and Their Medium]
[Literature 146. Space and Place in Postmodern Culture]


 
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Last updated on September 21, 2009