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Katharine Conley

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

First name: Katharine

Middle name:

Last name: Conley

Email: katharine.conley@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-3314, 603-646-2015

Office: 6087 Dartmouth Hall, 6045 Wentworth

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:

• "Moving into the Third Dimension: Nicole Brossard's Picture Theory," in Nicole Brossarde: Essays on Her Works, L Forsythe (ed.), (2005) 123-138.
• Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life, (2003).
• Robert Desnos pour l'an 2000, edited with M Dumas, (2000).
• Automatic Woman: The Representation of Woman in Surrealism, (1996).
• "Anamorphic Love: The Surrealist Poetry of Desire," in Surrealism: Desire Unbound, J Mundy (ed.), (2001).

Current projects: "Claude Cahun's Counter-Archival Heroines;" "Surrealism and Outside Art in Breton's Automatic Message;" Surrealist Ghostliness; “Rrose Selavy's Ghosts;†“Desnos and the Everyday;" "Francesca Woodman's Ghostly Corporeal Projections;" "Surrealism and Outsider Art in Breton's 'Automatic Message'"