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Katharine Conley

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

  • French and Italian
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Contact Information

Email: katharine.conley@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3314
Office: 6087 Dartmouth Hall

Education

B.A. Harvard University; M.A. University of Colorado; M.A. University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Expertise

Surrealism and French literature; Robert Desnos and Surrealist literary history; women and Surrealism

Selected Works

  • Surrealism and its Others: Yale French Studies 109, edited with P Taminiaux, (2006).
  • Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life, (2003).
  • "Anamorphic Love: The Surrealist Poetry of Desire" in Surrealism: Desire Unbound, J Mundy (ed.), (2001).
  • Robert Desnos pour l'an 2000, edited with M Dumas, (2000).
  • La Femme s'entête: La part du feminine dans le surréalisme, edited with G Covile, (1998).
  • Automatic Woman: The Representation of Woman in Surrealism, (1996).

Current Projects

"Claude Cahun's Counter-Archival Heroines;" "Surrealism and Outside Art in Breton's Automatic Message"; Surrealist Ghostliness; "Rrose Sélavy's Ghosts; Desnos and the Everyday;" "Francesca Woodman: A Swimmer Between Two Images;" Pierre Alechinsky's Navigational Palimpsests"