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 Professor of French
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1992
311 Dartmouth Hall
Kate.Conley@Dartmouth.edu
(603) 646-3411
Primary Interests
Surrealism, women in Surrealism, poetry, 20th-century fiction by women,
Quebec women writers, feminist and avant-garde theories of writing.
Select Courses
French 10, 20, 25, 45, 60, 80; Comp Lit 10, 61; Women's Studies 7
Selected Publications
- Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life (Nebraska UP,
2003)
- Robert Desnos pour l'an 2000, co-edited with Marie-Claire Dumas
(Gallimard-nrf, 2000)
- La Femme s'entête: la part du féminin dans le surréalisme, co-edited with
Georgiana Colvile (Lachenal & Ritter, 1998)
- Automatic Woman: The Representation of Woman in Surrealism (Nebraska UP,
1996)
- "Anamorphic Love: Surrealist Poetry of Desire" in Surrealism:
Desire Unbound exhibition catalog, Tate Modern, Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Tate Publications; Princeton UP, 2001)
- Surrealism and Its Others, co-edited with Pierre Taminiaux, Yale French
Studies no. 109 (Summer 2006)
- "Claude Cahun's Iconic Heads: From "The Sadistic Judith" to
Human Frontier." Papers of Surrealism 2 (Summer 2004):
www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/publications/papers/journal2/index.htm
Additional Information
Professor Conley’s research and teaching focuses on surrealism as the
premier avant-garde movement of the twentieth century. She has published
books and articles on women and the surrealist movement, on the poet Robert
Desnos as the founding figure upon whom surrealist practice was founded—a poet
whose surrealist idealism helped him in his work on the radio in the 1930s and
in the French Resistance up through his deportation and death in a newly
liberated concentration camp in 1945—and on the links between surrealist poetry
and painting and surrealism and outsider art. She is also the author of
essays in museum exhibition catalogues. She teaches courses in the
Department of French and Italian and in the Comparative Literature and Women’s
and Gender Studies Programs on surrealism, women in surrealism, modernism and
anthropology, primitivism and outsider art, and on surrealism and
photography. Her current research project explores ghostliness in
surrealist thought, film, photography, painting, sculpture, and writing.
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