Professor
Mary Ann Caws
CUNY Graduate Center
Literary and art scholar; Translator; Educator; Academic and research institution administrator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2009
Distinguished Professor of French, English and Comparative Literature, Emerita, Graduate School, CUNY. Specialist in Dada and Surrealism, and verbal/visual relationships: on Picasso, Motherwell, Dora Maar, Dalí, Masson, Mina Loy, and brief biographies of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Blaise Pascal. Translated Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Robert Desnos, Pierre Reverdy, René Char, Louis-René des Forêts, Gherasim Luca, Alice Paalen Rahon. Feminist issues, Bloomsbury, and Memoirs, as well as cookbooks related to art, edited textbooks on French poetry, the manifesto, and surrealist art and writing.
Publications, etc., "employment" etc. listed on
www.maryanncaws.com
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