#  Verena Andermatt Conley 

Emerita

Visiting Research Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures

 

 

 



   ![Verena](/sites/g/files/omnuum8296/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-04/vconley.jpg?itok=wb1kJ5gu) 

 



 

 location\_on Dana Palmer 202 

 email <vconley@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

**Research Interests:** Cultural Theory; Politics and Aesthetics; Ecology and Technology; Contemporary Fiction and Film

**Academic Degrees:** Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

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**Books:**

*Nancy Now, Ed. With Irving Goh (forthcoming 2013).*

*Spatial Ecologies*, available from Liverpool University Press, 2012. [**http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk**](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)

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**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 &amp; Irving Goh. *Substance* 126, 2011.

“Negotiating Space in Post-68 French Thought,” in The Spatial Turn in Social Theory. Eds. Yishai Blank &amp; 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 &amp; 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.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Department Role
    
     [Emeriti / Research Professor](/people/role/emeriti)
- ## Language
    
     [French](/language/french)