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Ph.D., University of Kansas
Distinguished Professor, Graduate School. Comparative Literature, English, French; Film Faculty

Selection of Books Published:

Surrealism and the Literary Imagination. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.

The Poetry of Dada and Surrealism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.

The Inner Theatre of Recent French Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972.

André Breton. Boston: Twayne, 1974.

The Presence of René Char. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.

René Char. Boston: Twayne, 1976.

The Surrealist Voice of Robert Desnos. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.

La Main de Pierre Reverdy. Geneva: Droz, 1979.

The Eye in the Text: Essays on Perception, Mannerist to Modern. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

A Metapoetics of the Passage: Architextures Surrealist and After. Hanover: University of New England Press, 1981.

L'Oeuvre filante de René Char. Paris: Nizet, 1981.

Yves Bonnefoy. Boston: Twayne, 1984.

Reading Frames in Modern Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Edmond Jabès. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988.

The Art of Interference: Stressed Readings in Visual and Verbal Texts. Cambridge: Polity, and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington. New York and London: Routledge, 1990.

Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Carrington and Lytton/ Alone Together. London: Cecil Woolf, 1996.

André Breton, Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1996.

The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1997.

Surrealism and the Art of Display. Wexner Center, Fall, 1997.

Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. (with Sarah Bird Wright) New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Picasso's Weeping Woman: the Life and Art of Dora Maar Boston: Little Brown/Bulfinch, 2000.

Dora Maar With and Without Picasso: A Biography. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000.

Les Vies de Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les surrealistes. Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Dora Maar con y sin Picasso: una biografia. Madrid: Destino, 2000.

Die Kunsterlin an Picasso's Seite. Berlin: Nicolai, 2000.

Dora Maar: med og uden Picasso : en biografi. Copenhagen: Forlaget Soren Fogtdal, 2001.

Virginia Woolf: Illustrated Lives. London: Penguin, 2001; New York: Overlook, 2002; paper: Overlook Duckworth, 2004.

Marcel Proust: Illustrated Lives. New York and London: Overlook Duckworth, 2003.

Pablo Picasso. London: Reaktion Books, 2005.

Henry James: Illustrated Lives. New York and London: Overlook Duckworth, 2006.

Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Surprised in Translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Editions:

Théorie/Tableau/Texte. Paris: Minard, 1983.

About French Poetry from Dada to Tel Quel: Theory and Text. Detroit: Wayne State, 1984.

The Prose Poem in France (co-editor with Hermine Riffaterre). New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

Le Manifeste et le caché. Paris: Minard, 1981.

Le Texte et son double. Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1985.

Writing in a Modern Temper. Stanford: Anma Libri, 1984.

Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading. New York: Modern Language Association, 1986.

Perspectives on Perception: Philosophy, Art, and Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 1988.

Edmond Jabès. (co-editor with Richard Stamelman) Geneva: Editions de la Montagne, 1989.

Reading Proust Now. (co-editor with Eugène Nicole) New York: Peter Lang, 1990.

Selected Poems of René Char. (co-editor with Tina Jolas and translated) New York: New Directions, 1992.

Women and Surrealism. (co-editor with Ruedi Kuenzli and Gwen Raaberg) Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1991.

City Images. Philadelphia, Gordon and Breach, 1991.

L'Esprit Créateur. (co-editor with Richard Stamelman) 32, 2 (Summer 1992).

Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Journals, Letters, and Files. New York and London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

HarperCollins World Reader. (chief editor) New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Contre-Courants: Les femmes s'écrivent à travers les siècles. (co-edited with Nancy K. Miller, Elizabeth Houlding, and Cheryl Morgan) Prentice Hall, 1994.

Carto-graphies. (co-editor with Mary Jean Green, Marianne Hirsch, Ronnie Scharfman) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

"Around Yves Bonnefoy" (co-editor with Renée Waldinger) Special issue of L'Esprit Créateur, 36, 3 (Fall 1996).

Surrealist Painters and Poets. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2001.

Manifesto: A Century of Isms. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2001.

The Yale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry: a Bilingual Anthology New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. (aided by French Government and the Florence Gould Foundation)

Surrealism (London: Phaidon, 2004)

Translations:

Tristan Tzara, Approximate Man and Other Writings, 1974.

Poems of René Char. (with Jonathan Griffin) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.

Roof Slates and other Poems of Pierre Reverdy. (with Patricia Terry) Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1981.

Selected Poems and Prose of Stephane Mallarmé. New York: New Directions, 1982.

Poems of André Breton. (with Jean-Pierre Cauvin) Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.

Selected Poems of St-John Perse. New York: New Directions, 1982.

André Breton, Mad Love. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Andre Breton, Communicating Vessels. (with Geoffrey Harris) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

Marcelin Pleynet, Robert Motherwell. Paris: Daniel Papierski, 1990.

Selected Poems of Pierre Reverdy. (editor and co-translator with John Ashbery and Patricia Terry) Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1991.

Selected Poems of René Char. (editor and co-translator with Tina Jolas) New York: New Directions, 1991.

Jacques Derrida and Paule Thévenin, The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1998.

André Breton, Lost Steps. (co-editor with Mark Polizzotti) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

André Breton, Break of Day. (co-translator and co-editor with Mark Polizzotti) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Mallarme in Prose. New York: New Directions, 2001.

Louis-René des Forêts, Ostinato. University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Tristan Tzara: Approximate Man and Other Poems, new edition. Boston: Black Widow Press, 2005

André Breton: Selected Poems (editor and co-translator). Boston: Black Widow Press, 2005

Paul Eluard. Selected Poems (co-edited with Patricia Terry, and co-translated). Boston: Black Widow Press, 2006.

Elected Positions:

President, Association for Study of Dada and Surrealism, 1971-75

President, Modern Language Association of America, 1983

President, Academy of Literary Studies, 1984-5

President, American Comparative Literature Association, 1989-91

Fellowships:

Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow; National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow; Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars (2); Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar; life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University; Getty Scholar; Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio: 1994, 2005).

Editorships:

Editor: Le Siècle éclaté (Paris: 1973--); Co-Editor, Dada and Surrealism (1980--); Chief Editor, HarperCollins World Reader (1994).
Editorial Board: College Literature; Comparative Literature Studies; Comparative Studies; Diacritics; French Review (1970-80); Modern Fiction Studies; New York Literary Forum; Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA,1979-81); Sites; Twentieth Century Studies.
Advisor: Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern Poetry; The Yale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry: a Bilingual Anthology (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)