Conley, Tom (Clark)

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CONLEY, Tom (Clark)

CONLEY, Tom (Clark). American, b. 1943. Genres: Film, Literary criticism and history, Translations. Career: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, assistant professor, 1971-75, associate professor, 1975-79, professor of French, 1979-95; University of Minnesota, head of Department of French and Italian, 1983-88; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, professor of Romance languages, 1995-. Visiting professor and lecturer at colleges and universities. Publications: Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema, 1991; The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing, 1992; The Self Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France, 1996; A Body in Print, 1997. CO-EDITOR: Rethinking Technologies, 1993; (with S. Ungar) Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France, 1996. TRANSLATOR: (and author of intro.) M. de Certeau, The Writing of History, 1988; (and author of intro.) G. Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 1993; (and author of intro.) J.L. Schefer, The Deluge, the Plague: Paolo Uccello, 1994; R. Bensmaia, A Year of Passages (novel), 1995; de Certeau, The Abduction of Speech, 1997; de Certeau, Culture in the Plural, 1997. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. Address: Department of Romance Languages, 201 Boylston Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]