Dr. Tom Conley

Biography

Tom Conley is the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Art, Film, Visual Studies and Romance Languages Literatures Emeritus at Harvard University. He specializes in the relations between space, writing, literature, cartography, and cinema, focusing on early modern France and theoretical issues in the interpretation of visual media. His notable books include 'Film Hieroglyphs', 'Graphic Unconscious: Early Modern Writing', 'Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France', and 'Cartographic Cinema'. He has contributed to over 250 articles, book chapters, and critical studies, exploring subjects such as History of Cartography, Cinema, Modernity, European Film Theory, and more. Conley has held visiting appointments at institutions like the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA, and he has been actively involved in critical theory seminars at Cornell. His work has been recognized with fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation, and he is a member of several academic organizations, including the Modern Language Association. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Université Blaise-Pascal in France and has co-edited a significant volume titled 'Illustrations conscientes: Mélanges en honneur de Tom Conley', celebrating his contributions to the field.

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