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Katharine Conley

Departments: French and Italian, Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies

Kate Conley

Email: katharine.conley@dartmouth.edu

Phone: (603)646-3411 or (603)646-2015

Office: 311 Dartmouth Hall or 208 Wentworth Hall

Titles:

  • Professor of French
  • Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities

Education:

B.A. Harvard University
M.A. French, University of Colorado
M.A. French, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. French, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of expertise: Surrealism and French literature; Robert Desnos and Surrealist literary history; Man Ray; Andre Breton

Selected works:

  • "When the Viewer's Gaze is Returned:  Teaching Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon."  Teaching Ethics.  Forthcoming 2009-10.
  • "Rrose Sélavy's Ghosts:  Life, Death, and Desnos."  French Review.  Forthcoming April 2010.
  • "Safe as Houses:  Anamorphic Bodies in Ordinary Spaces:  Miller, Carrington, Tanning, and Woodman."  In Angels of Anarchy:  Woman Surrealist Artists and Tradition.  Ed.  Patricia Allmer.  Forthcoming with Prestel, September 2009.
  • "A Swimmer Between Two Worlds:  Francesca Woodman's Maps of Interior Space."  Journal of Surrealism and the Americas 2.2 (2008).
  • Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life, (2003).
  • Automatic Woman: The Representation of Woman in Surrealism, (1996).

Last Updated: 6/5/09