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Selected Audio/Video Appearances

• Guest on Cross Cultural Poetics, a radio show hosted by Leonard Schwartz, (broadcast on KAOS 89.3FM, Olympia Community Radio, soon to be available as a podcast). She discussed her translations of Capital of Pain by Eluard and Approximate Man by Tzara, both published by Black Widow Press. December 7, 2007
• Interview on CUNY-TV's CANAPE about the Yale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry, June 2005
• Guest on Wisconsin Public Radio's To The Best of Our Knowledge, segment on Surrealism, February 13, 2005
• Appears in two films by Fabrize Maze about Jacqueline Lamba: L’Amour Fou d’André Breton et La peinture jusqu’au bout du ciel, which premiered on February 10, 2005 at the SCAM
• Guest on the BBC's Nightwaves, speaking on Surrealism, November 18, 2004
• Interviewed in Lizzie Thynne's documentary about Claude Cahun, Playing a Part, 2004
• Guest on "The Legacy of Surrealism," hosted by Dick Gordon, on The Connection (WBUR radio program), February 27, 2002
• Guest on What's the Word? "Writers and Painters" (episode 125), Modern Language Association radio show, 2002
• Guest on "Imagination without chains - Surrealism on 3," host Richard Coles, Tate video webcast, September 25, 2001
• "Picasso's Weeping Woman," interview by Frances Degen Horowitz on Women to Women (CUNY radio program), January 11, 2001
• Interview about Marcel Proust to accompany the audiobook of Swann's Way, Recorded Books, 1999

Visiting lectureships

• Missouri Southern State University: September 27-29, 2006
• Indiana University: two weeks of lectures, etc. spring, 2004
• Washington University in St. Louis: five lectures, 2002

Lectures (selection since 1988 only)

• Participant in a "talkback" session for the play The Blue Flower, produced at the Prospect Theater, Febrary 24, 2008
• "What to Wear in a Vampire Movie," at Fashion and Film - A Seminar in Honor of E. Ann Kaplan, the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook Manhattan, February 23, 2008
• "Experimental Wanderings in the Drawings of Robert Desnos," College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, February 21, 2008
• "French Contractions in the Aphoristic Mode," in the The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation University Professor Programs series at Boston University, January 8, 2008
• Reading of new translations of poems by René Char as part of the Off the Rail: Selections from Brooklyn Rail series, Brooklyn Public Library, December 13, 2007
• "Eugene Guillevic et la poésie newyorkaise," University College Dublin, September 21, 2007
• keynote speech, "Translating and Trans-Posing: the Crossroads of Power," University of Swansea, Wales, September 17, 2007
• "René Char et la poésie anglo-saxonne,", Centre européen de poésie d'Avignon, July 14, 2007
• Poets Reading In Honor Of The Demoiselles D'Avignon, MoMA, May 23, 2007
• "Surrealism and Love," Israel Museum, Jerusalem, May 1, 2007
• "Make It New: Retranslating Great Literature," PEN panel discussion, April 26, 2007
• "The Art of Trans-posing," Translations/Transpositions conference (in honor of Rosemary Lloyd), Cambridge University, March 29, 2007
• "Yves Bonnefoy en Communication," Bordeaux, February 7, 2007
• Chair of 4th DC International Poetry Festival panels, including Panel on Translation, at Chapters: A Literary Bookstore and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, November 11, 2007
• "The Object of Dada," "The Subject of Surrealism," and "Picasso's Problem," University of Buffalo, October 24-26, 2006
• "Traveling and Translating with Jacques Derrida," Winnipeg, Derrida conference, October 4-7, 2006
• "Looking Anew: Surrealism Today," University of Kansas, October 5, 2006
• "What is(are) Dada/Surrealism?" and "Picasso's Problem", Missouri Southern State University - Joplin, September 28-29, 2007
• panelist on "Connecting the Dadaists: An interdisciplinary afterword to MoMa’s Dada exhibit", sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center CUNY, September 18, 2006
• "Proust's Hawthorn Experience," Bellagio, Italy, September 9, 2006
• Translation and Passion ("Passion pour Traduire"), Aix, France, July 2006
• "The Object of Dada," University of Wales, Swansea, July 7, 2006
• Surrealist Gaming, College Art Association annual conference, Boston, February 24, 2006
• Robert Desnos, Amiens, France, March 9 2006


• Dali and Duchamp--Possible Impossibles: Oh, Those Surrealist Objects!, Modernist Studies Association conference, Chicago, November 5, 2005
• Picasso et ses amis (in French), National Arts Club, November 17, 2005
• Keynote address Art and Text, Southern Central Modern Language Association, Houston, October 28, 2005
• The Socratic Method and Virginia Woolf, (sponsored by the NEH) Villanova University, October 21, 2005
• Eccentric Women Writing and Painting, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, October 17, 2005
• Moderation of panel France and the US, National Arts Club, September 19, 2005
• Participant in The Dream and the Painted Image: Roundtable on Surrealism at the National Academy Museum, Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
• Reading of the memoir To the Boathouse, New Hanover County Public Library, Wilmington NC, April 30, 2005
• Readings by poets, from the Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry, Poetry Society of America, March 31, 2005
• "Surrealizing Photography," The National Portrait Gallery, London, March 17, 2005
• On the Poetry of Art by Jean Tardieu, Lyon, March 10-11, 2005
• "Surrealism Still," Vanderbilt University, February 17, 2005
• "A Double Valentine Celebration", including the Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry, CUNY Skylight Room, 365 5th Ave NY NY, February 14, 2005, 6pm
• Academic Women and Their Memoirs, Columbia University, February 11, 2005
• Celebrating Jacques Derrida, NYU, January 21, 2005


• seminar on Proust and Mallarme, and what lasts and the Cummings Lecture (public lectures on Surrealism), McGill University, Nov. 17 and 18, 2004
• Reading and discussion of the memoir To the Boathouse, at Chapters bookstore, Washington, November 6, 2004; Chicago Humanities Festival, November 14, 2004; National Arts Club, December 8, 2004
• Interview with Nicole Brossard (French Canadian poet), Poets House, November 9, 2004
• "On Claude Cahun," University of Sussex, video taping, June, 2004
• "Re-Visiting Bloomsbury," Virginia Woolf International Conference, London, June 24, 2004
• Poetry reading (from the Yale Anthology of French Twentieth Century Poetry) for "World in Translation Month," Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, May, 2004
• "Nathalie Sarraute: Reading Others," Barnard College, April 2, 2004
• "Proust's World," Beaux-Arts Alliance, March, 2004
• "Seeing Proust Seeing," Colony Club, March 2, 2004
• "Seeing Proust Seeing," and "Some Extraordinary Women: Claude Cahun, Emily Carr, Suzanne Valadon," Indiana University, February 23 & 24, 2004


• "Anthology-making" and "Seeing Poetry" MLA, San Diego, December, 2003
• "Robert Motherwell: a Painter's World, Cameron Museum, Wilmington, N.C., November 21, 2003
• "Joseph Cornell," Chicago Humanities Festival (Poetry Society of America lecture, with Mark Strand, Lydia Davis), November, 2003
• "Le Monde de Proust", National Arts Club, November 17, 2003
• "Proust, Saving Time" Chicago Humanities Festival, November 8, 2003
• "Robert Motherwell and Pontigny," Mt. Holyoke College, November 7, 2003
• "Personal Training in Translation," Williams College, November 1, 2003
• "Boxing with Joseph Cornell," Graduate School, CUNY, October 31, 2003
• "Seeing Proust Seeing," Cooper Union, October 24, 2003
• "Proust's Influence on Virginia Woolf," Mercantile Library, New York, September 24, 2003
• "Que peut nous dire la poésie aujourd'hui?t?" (conference on modern French poetry), University College, Dublin, September 5, 2003
• "Henri Peyre's Yale," for Yale Alumni, April 4, 2003
• "Teaching, Text, Translation," Graduate Center, CUNY, March 21, 2003
• "Surrealism in the Books," Toledo Art Museum, March 1, 2003
• "Not Just the Weeping Woman: photography as autobiography," February 21, Graduate Center, CUNY
• "Ellipsis in Symbolist Translation: Whistler and Mallarmé," College Art Association, Feb. 2003


• "Surrealist Love," Chicago Humanities Festival, Oct. 9, 2002
• "The Fashion of Modernism," International Fashion Conference, October, 2002
• "DADA!" Works in Process Guggenheim Museum (New York), October 21-22, 2002
• "Modernism and the Visual Arts," Modernism Conference, October 31, 2002
• "Modernism and the Visual Arts," University of Florida, September 21, 2002


• "Textus Interruptus," : Comparative Literature: 19th century, Modern Language Association, 2001
• Chair of panel on Art and Autobiography, Modern Language Association, 2001
• "Dora Maar With and Without Picasso," September 4, The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts, 2001
• "Whistler, Wharton, and my Grandmother: Where it All Was," Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, July 23, 2001
• "Virginia Woolf: l'intergenre," Cerisy-la-Salle, France, July 8, 2001
• "Ezra Pound: Writer as Translator," Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, July 6, 2001
• "Biography Writing: Dora Maar," Charleston Festival, Sussex, England, May 28, 2001
• "Forget Picasso: Writing Dora Maar," Women Writing Women's Lives celebration, March, 2001
• "Already Hyping: the Object of Surrealism," College Art Association, Chicago, February, 2001
• "Mallarmé in Bloomsbury," British Academy, January 29, 2000
• "Self-Picturing and Authenticity: the Woman Photographer," Winnipeg Art Museum, February 6, 2000
• "Surrealism and Scandal," for The Art of Scandal, CUNY Graduate School, March 24, 2000


• "Scandalizing Surrealism and Ourselves," Washington, Modern Language Association, Dec. 19, 2000
• "Dora Maar: Life and Layout for the Minotaur," Women Writing Women's Lives 10th Anniversary Celebration, December 8, 2000
• " Dora Maar," National Arts Club, New York, December 5, 2000
• "Singularité de René Crevel," Université de Bordeaux, November 21, 2000
• "The Destiny of Robert Desnos," Institute of Romance Studies, London, University of London, November 17, 2000
• "Not just the Weeping Woman: Dora Maar," Tate Modern Museum, London, November 17, 2000
• "Yves Bonnefoy et Stéphane Mallarme," Universite de Tours, November 14, 2000
• "The Modernist Art of Sarah Austin," Cosmopolitan Club, New York, November 7, 2000
• "Vita Sackville-West: Her Tower and Travels," Graduate Center, CUNY, Sept.15, 2000
• "Le Regard de Robert Desnos," Cerisy-la-Salle, July, 2000
• "Slip-Ups: Translating Surrealism," West Dean, England, keynote lecture for Surrealism Laid Bare Too May 20, 2000
• "Bloomsbury and France," Appalachian State, April 14, 2000
• "Modern and Contemporary French Painting," French Institute, March 4, 2000


• "The Voice of the Other," Modern Language Association, December, 1999
• "Bloomsbury et la France," National Arts Club, December 17, 1999
• "Mallarmé in Bloomsbury," University of Montreal, November 12, 1999
• "Suzanne Valadon: Not Just His Mummy," Bloomington, Indiana, September 8, 1999
• "On Yves Bonnefoy," Dalhousie University, September, 1999
• University of St. Louis, April, 1999, series of lectures: "From Mallarmé to Modernism," "The Surrealist Look," "Proust and his Painters," "Bloomsbury and France"
• "Expressionism and Modernism," St Louis Art Museum, April 6, 1999
• "Triangular Translation," Philadelphia, April 1, 1999
• "Mallarmé's Modes," "Graduate School, City University of New York, February, 1999
• "Virginia's Things: Object Lessons," Virginia Woolf Conference, Bordeaux, France, January, 1999


• "Beckett Translating," Modern Language Association, December, 1998
• "Bloomsbury's Mallarmé," keynote lecture, Mallarmé conference, Melbourne, Australia, October, 1998
• "Surrealism Now," University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia, October, 1998
• "When is Looking Finding? Translating Surrealism," Colloquium on Translation, Manchester, England, October, 1998
• "Proust's Painters," annual Proust lecture, Mercantile Library, October, 1998
• "Garder le silence ou parler?" colloquium on "La France sous l'occupation," Cassis, Camargo Foundation, June, 1998
• "Conversation in Biography," Women's Biography Seminar, May, 1998
• "Unfolding Mallarmé," University of Pennsylvania, May, 1998
• "Mallarmé's Coup de Dés," Cedarcrest University, April, 1998
• "Looking at Surrealist Woman," first Modern Languages and Literature Pennimann Lecture Trinity College, March, 1998
• "Surrealism in a Woman's View," keynote lecture, NYU Student Conference, March, 1998
• "Looking at Surrealist Woman," Humanities Institute, State University at Stony Brook, February, 1998


• "Bloomsbury and France, Illustrated," Columbia University, 1997
• "The English Fold: From the Pre-Raphaelites to Bloomsbury," Atlanta, SAMLA, November, 1997
• "Bloombury Friends," Colony Club, New York, November, 1997
• "The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter," SUNY Purchase, Humanities Lecture, April, 1997
• "What's the Indifference?" Graduate School, 20th Century Seminar, February, 1997 (reply to Wayne Koestenbaum)
• "Problematics of the Pleat," College Art Association, 1997, New York


• "Carrington and Vanessa: Painting the Bloomsbury Landscape," The Mount, Massachusetts, 1996
• "Mallarmé and his Artistic Progeny," Stanford, 1996
• "Where do we go from here? A Book, A Garden, An Installation," Panel at Modern Language Association, 1996


• "Edith Wharton and John Ruskin: Autobiographical Lies," Yale University, April 28, 1995
• "The Ethics of Translation," keynote address for "Translation in Film and Literature," Manchester, University of Salford, April, 1995
• "Seeing in Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse and The Waves," Manchester, University of Salford, March, 1995
• "Yves Bonnefoy, Sostenuto," Bonnefoy conference, Graduate School, March 24, 1995
• "Translation and the Art of Friendship, Signed Mallarmé and Whistler," Graduate School, Distinguished Professors Series, March 22, 1995
• "Sujet bref, poème long," Université de Bordeaux, March 16, 1995
• Chair, French Dance and Text, Graduate School, March 14, 1995
• "Bloomsbury and the Art of Modernism," Washington College, February 21, 1995
• "Reading Women, Writing Women," Washington College, February 21, 1995
• "On Pointing," College Art Association, San Antonio, January 25, 1995


• "The Ethics of Translation," Modern Language Association, December, 1994
• "Sight Lines," keynote address, Southeastern Modern Language Association, November, 1994
• "Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, and France," Women's Studies, Graduate School, November, 1994
• "What Was Modern French Poetry, and Why Did It Matter?" Indiana University, October 1994
• "Max Jacob Now," NYU, October, 1994
• "Elevenses with Whistler and Mallarmé," Indiana University, September, 1994
• "Roger Fry, Modernism, and the Bloomsbury Group," Mercantile Library, New York, April 6, 1994
• "Imitation," for the Université d'Amiens, January, 1994
• "Symbolisme/Impressionisme," for the Université d'Amiens, January, 1994
• "Lire texte et image: du Baroque jusqu'au présent" - course for the DEA, December-February, 1993-4, Université de Paris VII


• Chair, "Poets Reading New York City," Modern Language Association, December, 1992
• "How Did We Get Here (and where are we?): Surrealism, Feminism, and Some Other Arts," University of Connecticut, November 12, 1992
• "What Happened to the Twentieth Century?" Graduate School, November 6, 1992
• "The Pleasures of Marcel Proust," Mercantile Library, November 4, 1992
• Chair, panel for conference "Out of the Academy and Into the World, with Carolyn G. Heilbrun," October 30, 1992
• "Supports/Surface, and Contemporary Art Criticism," Halifax, Nova Scotia, September, 1992
• "How to See," keynote address, Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Ottowa, June 1, 1992
• "Music and Poetry," Round Table with Pierre Boulez, UCLA, May 11, 1992
• "The Open and the Closed," American Comparative Literature Association, April, 1992
• Chair, "Art in New York" section for conference on French Exiles in New York, Columbia University, April, 1992
• "Remembering Motherwell Remembering: The Surrealists in New York," Twentieth Century Conference, Colorado, April, 1992
• Chair, Conference on "Windows," Graduate School, CUNY, March, 1992
• "What She Means to Us," Keynote address, conference on "Virginia Woolf and After," Institute for Contemporary Art, London, February 22, 1992 ( Massachusetts Review, September 1992)


• Chair, "Poems: Do We Still Talk about Them?" Modern Language Association, December, 1991
• "Criticism Personal and Interpersonal," Modern Language Association, December, 1991
• chair, "Fashion," in Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, New Orleans, 1991
• "Reading the New World: Baroque, Romantic, and Surrealist Literature and Art," De Menil Collection, Houston, November, 1991
• "Remembering Robert Motherwell," Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Service, October, 1991
• "Parole de peintre: Joseph Cornell et Robert Motherwell," Chateau de la Bretesche, Brittany, June, 1991
• "Rage Begins at Home," opening address for conference on Feminism and Rage, CUNY Graduate Center, May, 1991 (Massachusetts Review, 1993)
• "Making Space," response to keynote address at International Conference on Philosophy and Literature, Universite de Montreal, May, 1991
• "L'oeil fixe, les yeux croisés," Lecture at Beaubourg Center, May 25, 1991
• "Open Art, Open Texts," Fordham University, April, 1991
• "Sideways," for panel on marginalization of contemporary poetry, American Comparative Literature Association, San Diego, March, 1991
• chair, "Translations and their Work," American Comparative Literature Association, San Diego, March, 1991
• "Taking some Roads: French Painters and their Poets," Twentieth-Century French Conference, Austin, Texas, March, 1991
• chair, "French Poetry in the Twentieth Century," Austin, Texas, March, 1991
• chair, panel discussion on André Malraux, CUNY Graduate Center, February, 1991
• "Talking about Art," Bryn Mawr college symposium, February, 1991
• Presidential address, American Comparative Literature Association, San Diego, 1991


• "Joseph Cornell and the City," Santa Cruz, 1990
• "Joseph Cornell and Robert Motherwell: Two American Lyrics," Getty Center for the History of Art, 1990
• "René Char," Palais des Papes, Avignon, July, 1990
• "Traduire et vivre avec René Char," Jardin de poésie, Avignon, 1990
• "Joseph Cornell," History of Art lecture series, CUNY Graduate School, December, 1990
• chair, "Gender, Politics, and Comparative Literature," Modern Language Association, 1990
• Presidential address, American Comparative Literature Association, Penn State, 1990
• "Stressed Readings and Interference," Los Angeles Artists Association, 1989
• "Women, Art, and Pain," Dartmouth College, July, 1988
• "Against Felling: on Ruskin and Hopkins," Dartmouth College, July, 1988
• "Shifty Eyes: On Change in Contemporary French Poetry and Art," Twentieth Century French
• "Revoir Reverdy," Colloque Reverdy, Paris, June, 1989
• Studies conference on "Revolution," Columbia University, March, 1989
• "Revolutionary Styles," University of Manchester, January, 1989
• "Translating: Rape to Rectitude, and On," University of Salford, 1989
• "Bloomsbury Grouping," University of Salford, January, 1989
• "Women, Art, and Pain," University of Salford, January, 1989


• "Showing and Telling: Criticism in Visual Crisis," Princeton Graduate School of Architecture, December 7, 1988
• "Working, Worrying, Waging," City University : Academy of Humanities and Sciences, December 2, 1988
• "Women of Bloomsbury," University of Texas, November, 1988
• "Stressed Readings," University of Southern California, February, 1988
• "Moral Passion and the Art of Seeing," University of Southern California, February, 1988
• "Knowing and Seeing," Conference on Cognitive Science, Northeastern and MIT, January, 1988

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