Verena Andermatt Conley
French Section Leader
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests: Cultural Theory; Politics and Aesthetics; Ecology and Technology; Contemporary Fiction and Film
Books:
Nancy Now, Ed. With Irving Goh (forthcoming 2013).
Spatial Ecologies, available from Liverpool University Press, 2012. http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk
Littérature, politique et communisme: Lire “Les Lettres françaises,” (1942-1972) (2005).
Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Theory (1997).
Rethinking Technologies, ed. (1993; 1997).
Hélène Cixous (1992).
Hélène Cixous: Reading with Clarice Lispector, ed. Trans. And introduced (1990).
Hélène Cixous: Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector and Tsvetaeva. Ed. Trans. And introduced (1991).
Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine (1984; expanded edition 1991)
Recent Articles and Chapters in Books:
“The City as Target or Targeting the City: French intellectuals and city spaces,” in Targeting the City. Ed. Ryan Bishop. 2012.
“Making Sense from Singular and Collective Touches.” Eds. Ryan Bishop & Irving Goh. Substance 126, 2011.
“Negotiating Space in Post-68 French Thought,” in The Spatial Turn in Social Theory. Eds. Yishai Blank & Issi Rosen-Zvi. Hagar,Studies in Cultural Politics and Identity, 2010.
“Literature, Space and the French Nation State,” in French Global: New Approaches to French Literary History. Eds. Christie McDonald and Susan Suleiman. 2010.
“Living in Translation,” MLA Profession 2010, 2010.
“Félix Guattari’s Three Ecologies,” in Ecological Urbanism. Eds. Moshen Mostafavi & Gareth Doherty, 2010.
“Small Pleasures in Huge Webs,” in “Sustainability and Pleasure,” Harvard Design Magazine, 2009 (on line).
“Soigne ta droite,” in Yale French Studies 116/117. Ed. Lawrence Schehr, 2009.
“Thirty-six Thousand Forms of Love: The Queering of Deleuze and Guattari,” in Queer Flights: Deleuze and Queer Theory, ed. Chrysanthi Nigianni, 2009.
“Of Rhizomes and New Media,” in Deleuze and New Technologies, Davdi Savat and Mark Poster, ed. 2009.
“Artists or Little Soldiers,” in Deleuze/Guattari and Ecology. Ed. Bernd Herzogenrath, 2008.