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Tom Clark Conley
Tom Conley at the American Academy of Berlin in 2020
Born(1943-12-07)December 7, 1943
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Died(2026-07-24)July 24, 2026
EducationLawrence University, Columbia University, University of Wisconsin–Madison
OccupationsWriter, professor, translator
EmployerHarvard University
Known forEarly modern French literature, cartography, and cinema
Notable workFilm Hieroglyphs, The Self-Made Map, An Errant Eye
SpouseVerena Andermatt Conley
Children2
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2003), honorary doctorate from Université Blaise-Pascal (2011) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)
WebsiteRadcliffe Institute Profile

Tom Conley (1943-2026) was an American scholar of literature, cartography, and film. He was the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Research Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and was formerly affiliated with the Departments of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures. He was noted for his interdisciplinary work exploring relations between space and writing in early modern France, the history of cartography, and cinema.[1]

Early life and education

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Conley was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in a non-academic family. He studied at Lawrence University and Columbia University before completing his Ph.D. in French literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he also pursued art history and film studies. He later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1968 as a Fulbright Fellow.[2]

Career

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Before working at Harvard University, Conley was professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota from 1971 to 1995. He has held visiting appointments at the University of California-Berkeley (1978–79), the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (1985–87), Miami University (1992), UCLA (1995), L’Ecole nationale des chartes (2005), L’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (2010 and 2011), and other institutions. In the spring and summer of 1998, respectively, he led a Folger Library Seminar and, at Harvard University, an NEH Summer Seminar on cartography and early modern French literature. In the summers of 2001 and 2004, he taught at the Institut d’études françaises d’Avignon. In 2003, he was a seminar leader at Cornell University's School for Critical Theory.[1][3]

He was a fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin (1991), the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography (1992), Cornell University's Society for the Humanities (1998), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2011–12), and the Garden and Landscape Division of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center (2015–16). He was a residential fellow at the American Academy of Berlin (2020), and a Visiting Scholar in residence at Dumbarton Oaks Research (2022).[3]

With Harvard Film Archive director Haden Guest, Conley co-curated the film series "Action, Action, Action: The Cinema of Raoul Walsh" (2013) and "Fortunes of the Western" (2014), for which he also contributed program notes.[4]

Conley's awards include a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1965), a Fulbright Fellowship (1968), an American Council for Learned Societies Study Fellowship (1976), summer stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1972, 1988, 1992), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003). He is a recipient of the Palmes Académiques for pedagogy (2002) and a Medal of Honor of the City of Tours. In 2011, the Université Blaise-Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand) awarded him an honorary doctorate.[5] He was awarded a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin (2020).[6]

He was a member of the Modern Language Association, the International Association for the History of Cartography, the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, the Renaissance Society of America, the Society for the History of Discoveries and the United States Handball Association. From 2000 to 2020, he and his spouse, Verena Conley, were faculty deans of Kirkland House at Harvard University.[7]

Scholarly works

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Conley's scholarship examines the intersections of writing, space, and visual culture, with particular emphasis on early modern France, cartography, and film.[8] His books include Film Hieroglyphs (1991; new edition 2006),[9] The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing (1992; paperback reprint 1996),[10] The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France (1996;[11] new edition 2010[12]), L’Inconscient graphique: Essai sur la lettre à la Renaissance (2000),[13] Cartographic Cinema (2006),[14] An Errant Eye: Topography and Poetry in Early Modern France (2011),[15] À fleur de page: Voir et lire le texte de la Renaissance (2015),[16] and Action, Action, Action: The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh (2022),[17] the first volume of a diptych to be followed by Walsh War Warner, covering 1939–1964 (under contract). He is also the author of Su realismo (1988),[18] a critical study of Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes (1932), and co-editor, with T. Jefferson Kline, of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Jean-Luc Godard (2014).[19]

Reception

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The Self-Made Map (1996) was described in a review in Choice as a meaningful addition to the history of cartography, and was examined in detail in a review essay in The Medieval Review.[20] His later study Action, Action, Action: The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh (2022) was praised by film scholar George Toles as an "extraordinary addition to silent and early sound film history".[21]

Among his more than 250 articles and book chapters are contributions to volumes in film studies such as The History of Cartography, Volume 3: The European Renaissance (2006), Cinema and Modernity (2007), the Wiley-Blackwell companions to Michael Haneke (2010), Fritz Lang (2013), Luis Buñuel (2013), and François Truffaut (2013). His essays have appeared in The Epic Film (2010), Film Analysis (2005), Opening André Bazin (2011), Burning Darkness: A Half-Century of Spanish Cinema (2005), Film, Theory and Philosophy (2009), and European Film Theory (2008).[5]

In early modern literature, his work appears in A New History of French Literature (1989),[22] The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne (2005),[23] The History of Cartography, Volume 3: The European Renaissance (2006), La Satire dans tous ses états (2009), and French Global (2010), among others. Recent chapters include contributions to Walter Melion’s Mixti Moti (2024).

Conley also translated major works of theory and cultural history, including Michel de Certeau’s The Writing of History (1988; new edition 1992),[24] The Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings (1997),[25] and Culture in the Plural (1997);[26] Gilles Deleuze’s The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1993); Jean-Louis Schefer’s Paolo Uccello, The Deluge, the Plague (1995); Réda Bensmaïa’s The Year of Passages (1992); Marc Augé’s In the Metro (2003)[27] and Casablanca: Movies and Memory (2009); and Christian Jacob’s The Sovereign Map (2006).

Awards

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  • 1990-91 –Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison[28]
  • 1992 (Jan–June) – Hermon Dunlap Smith Fellowship in the History of Cartography, Newberry Library[1]
  • 1998 (Spring) – A. D. White House Fellow, Cornell University[29]
  • 1998 – NEH Summer Seminar Leader on Cartography and Early Modern French Literature[1]
  • 1999, 2000, 2001 – nomination, Levinson Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, Harvard University[29]
  • 2001 – Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques[30]
  • 2002 – Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University[31]
  • 2003–04 – John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship[32]
  • 2011–12 – research fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (declined Research Fellowships at Stanford Humanities Center, Dumbarton Oaks, Institute for Research in the Humanities)[5]
  • 2011 (Dec.) – honorary doctorate, Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France)[2]
  • 2015–16 – research fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Collections[33]
  • 2016 – elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[34]
  • 2020 (Spring) – Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin[6]
  • 2022 (Spring) – Visiting Scholar, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC[35]
  • 2025 – Everett Mendelsohn Award for Outstanding Mentorship and Advising in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University[36]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Conley, Tom (2022-06-01). Action, Action, Action. SUNY Press. doi:10.1515/9781438488875. ISBN 978-1-4384-8887-5.
  • Conley, Tom (2015). À fleur de page: voir et lire le texte de la Renaissance. Études et essais sur la Renaissance. Paris: Classiques Garnier. ISBN 978-2-8124-3248-4.
  • Conley, Tom (2011-01-29). An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France. University of Minnesota Press. doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816669646.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8166-6964-6.</ref>
  • Conley, Tom. Cartographic Cinema. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1-4529-0894-6.
  • Conley, Tom (2000). L' inconscient graphique: essai sur l'écriture de la Renaissance ; (Marot, Ronsard, Rabelais, Montaigne) (in French). Presses Univ. de Vincennes.
  • The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing. Cambridge; New York; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-41031-2.
  • Film Hieroglyphs: ruptures in classical cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8166-4970-9.
  • Cartographic Cinema. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8166-4356-1.

Short Monographs

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  • Su realismo: Lectura de Buñuel, "Tierra sin pan." Valencia, Spain: Centro de Semiótica y Teoría del Espectáculo (Documentos de trabajo, v. 6), 1988. 43 pp.[37]
  • Theaters of Cruelty: Wars of Religion, Violence, and The New World. Chicago: The Newberry Library (Transatlantic Encounter Slide Set 14), 1990. 34 pp. + 6 ill.[38]
  • Les Mistons’ & Undercurrents of French New Wave Cinema. The Norman and Jane Geske Lecture Series 8. Lincoln, Nebraska: The Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts, 2003. 35 pp.[39]

Translations

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Translations of  Books

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  • Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1988; 368 pp.; with introduction (revised paperback edition 1992). ISBN 9780231055758
  • Jean Louis Schefer, The Deluge, the Plague: Paolo Uccello.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995. xi + 144 pp., with introduction; foreword by Stephen Bann.ISBN 0472095196
  • Michel de Certeau, Culture in the Plural.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.  Introduction by Luce Giard.  With an Afterword.  xv + 180 pp.ISBN 9780816627677
  • Christian Jacob, The Sovereign Map:  Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. [xxiv + 417 pp.]ISBN 9780226389530
  • Marc Augé, Casablanca: Movies and Memory.  With an afterword.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 104 pp.doi:10.1111/J.1548-1360.2010.01063.X

Co-Edited Books

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  • Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in 20th century France, co-edited with Steven Ungar (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1996).  Ix + 299 pp.  With an Afterword.[40]
  • The World and its Rival:  Essays in Honor of Per Nykrog (Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions, 1999).  250 pp.[41]
  • Falso Movimento: Ensaios sobre escrita e cinema, co-edited with Clara Rowland (Lisbon: Cotovia, 2016).  280 pp. + 70 ill.[42]

Journal articles

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Further reading

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  • Bernd Renner and Phillip Usher have edited a Festschrift of 23 essays, Illustrations inconscientes: Écritures de la Renaissance. Mélanges en honneur de Tom Conley (Paris: Éditions Garnier, 2013).

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 House Masters: Tom and Verena Conley. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History - Class of Spring 2020". americanacademy.de. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies". early modern world. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Fortunes of the Western". Harvard Film Archive. 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2026-08-03.
  5. 1 2 3 "Tom Conley". mellonurbanism.com. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Jay, R. (2019-03-17). "Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  7. ↑ clara rowland and susan duarte. "Images Riddled with Language: An Interview with Tom Conley". uc.pt. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  8. ↑ "09 - Tom Conley (Harvard University)". memo.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  9. ↑ Conley, Tom (2006). Film Hieroglyphs (NED - New edition, Second ed.). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4970-9. JSTOR 10.5749/j.cttts3wt.
  10. ↑ "The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing". Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  11. ↑ Conley, Tom (1996). The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France (NED - New ed.). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2700-4. JSTOR 10.5749/j.cttttbqv.
  12. ↑ Conley, Tom (1997). The self-made map: cartographic writing in early modern France. Minneapolis (Minn.) London: University of Minnesota press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2700-4.
  13. ↑ Tom Conley (2000). L'Inconscient graphique: Essai sur la lettre et l'écriture de la Renaissance (Marot, Ronsard, Rabelais, Montaigne). Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar: Presses universitaires de Vincennes. ISBN 978-2-84292-937-4.
  14. ↑ Conley, Tom (2006). Cartographic Cinema. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4356-1. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctttv9qt.
  15. ↑ Conley, Tom (2011). An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-6964-6.
  16. ↑ Conley, Tom (2015). À fleur de page: voir et lire le texte de la Renaissance. Études et essais sur la Renaissance. Paris: Classiques Garnier. ISBN 978-2-8124-3248-4.
  17. ↑ Conley, Tom (2022). Action, action, action: the early cinema of Raoul Walsh. SUNY series, horizons of cinema. Albany: State University of New York. ISBN 978-1-4384-8885-1.
  18. ↑ Conley, Tom (1988). Su realismo: lectura de 'Tierra sin pan' (in Spanish). Fundación Instituto Shakespeare/Instituto de Cine y RTV.
  19. ↑ Conley, Tom; Kline, T. Jefferson (2014-06-03). A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-65926-7.
  20. ↑ "The Self-Made Map". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2026-08-03.
  21. ↑ Action, Action, Action. sunypress.edu.
  22. ↑ https://ufprbrasileiraluis.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/a-new-history-of-french-literature-c3adndice-e-introduc3a7c3a3o.pdf A New History of French Literature
  23. ↑ Regosin, Richard L. (2006). "The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne (review)". Renaissance Quarterly. 59 (3): 890–892. doi:10.1353/ren.2008.0424. ISSN 1935-0236.
  24. ↑ Cayton, Mary Kupiec (September 1993). "The Writing of History. By Michel de Certeau. Translated by Tom Conley. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. xxviii + 368 pp. $15.50 paper". Church History. 62 (3): 454–455. doi:10.2307/3168832. ISSN 1755-2613. JSTOR 3168832.
  25. ↑ "The capture of speech and other political writings / Michel de Certeau ; edited and with an... | Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  26. ↑ Certeau, Michel de (1997). Culture in the Plural. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2766-0.
  27. ↑ Sears, John (2002-10-30). "In the Metro by Marc Augé » PopMatters". www.popmatters.com. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  28. ↑ "Conley, Tom". Institute for Research in the Humanities. 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  29. 1 2 "Tom Conley". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  30. ↑ Lechevalier, Michel (2023-04-06). "Dialogues de l'AMOPA Irlande". Association des Membres de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (in French). Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  31. ↑ "Professors Awarded Cabot Fellowships | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  32. ↑ "Table, Map and Text: Writing in France circa 1600". University of Kentucky. March 8, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  33. ↑ meredithb. "From the Rare Book Collection". Dumbarton Oaks. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  34. ↑ "Tom Conley Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies". afvs.fas.harvard.edu. 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
  35. ↑ lainw. "Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Garden and Landscape Studies". Dumbarton Oaks. Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  36. ↑ "AFVS Faculty Tom Conley has been awarded with a 2025 Mendelsohn Award". Harvard Afvs. March 4, 2025. Retrieved August 8, 2025.
  37. ↑ "Works by Tom Conley". classiques-garnier.
  38. ↑ "Bibliography | Cartographic Cinema | Manifold@UMinnPress". manifold.umn.edu. Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  39. ↑ "Cartographic Cinema | Cartographic Cinema | Manifold@UMinnPress". manifold.umn.edu. Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  40. ↑ Ungar, Steven; Conley, Tom. Identity Papers: Scenes of Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1-4529-0281-4.
  41. ↑ Fabula, Équipe de recherche (2001-12-19). "French Studies, vol 55, nº 4, October 2001". fabula.org (in French). Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  42. ↑ "Falso Movimento: ensaios sobre escrita e cinema". www.livrariasnob.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2026-08-21.
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