Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor in the Departments of Romance Languages and Art, Film & Visual Studies, Tom Conley teaches early modern French literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, and film studies. He is author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema (two editions, 1991 and 2007), The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing (1992) (and a French variant, L’Inconscient graphique: Essai sur la lettre à la Renaissance (2000), The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France (two editions, 1996 and 2007), Cartographic Cinema (2007), An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France (2011), À fleur de page: Voir et lire le texte de la Renaissance (2015). Translator of works by Marc Augé, Christian Jacob, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, and others, he has authored 300 book-chapters and articles. He has held visiting professorships at the École Nationale des Chartes (2005) and the École en Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2010-11). Recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, in 2015-16 he was a fellow in residence at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and, in Spring 2020, the Nina Maria Garrison Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. In 2011, during a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Research, the Université Blaise-Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France) awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2014 witnessed the publication of Illustrations conscientes: Écritures de la Renaissance, Mélanges offerts à Tom Conley, ed. Philip Usher et Bernd Renner (Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2014, 494 pp.). From 2000 to 2020, he and Verena Conley were Faculty Deans at Harvard's Kirkland House. In 2016 he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He awaits imminent publication of his monograph on film maker Raoul Walsh, and is finishing, under contract, Des mots à la carte, a study of literature and cartography in the Baroque Age.