Mary Ann Caws

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright fellowships, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past President of the Modern Language Association, of the American Comparative Literature Association, of the Association for Dada and Surrealism, and of the Association of Literary Scholars. She is the author of The Modern Art Cookbook (Reaktion), The Surrealist Look: an Erotics of Encounter (MIT), Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds (Columbia University Press), To the Boathouse: a Memoir (University of Alabama Press), Picasso’s Weeping Woman: the Life and Art of Dora Maar (Thames and Hudson), Surprised in Translation (Chicago University Press), Provençal Cooking (Pegasus Books), Women of Bloomsbury (Methuen), Modernist Women Writing and Painting (Palgrave Macmillan), brief biographies of Henry James (Overlook), Marcel Proust (Overlook), Virginia Woolf (Overlook), Pablo Picasso (Reaktion Books), Salvador Dali (Reaktion Books), and catalogues on André Masson (Blain/DiDonna), Hans Arp (Blain/DiDonna), Surrealism and the rue Blomet (Eykyn Maclean), essay on Dora Maar for catalog for Picasso and the Camera (Gagosian) chapter on Painting and Sculpture for the Cambridge History of Modernism, and, forthcoming, Blaise Pascal: Renaissance Lives (Reaktion Books.). She is the editor of the Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry (now also an Oxford University Press ebook), Stéphane Mallarmé : Selected Poetry and Prose (New Directions), Stéphane Mallarmé : Mallarmé in Prose (New Directions), René Char: Selected Poems (New Directiions), St-John Perse: Selected Poems (New Directions), Pierre Reverdy (NYRB Books), Surrealist Love Poems (Tate Publishing and Chicago University Press), Surrealist Painters and Poets (MIT), and Surrealism (Phaidon), Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings (Palgrave), and Pierre Reverdy: Early to Late (Black Widow Books) (ed. and translated, with Patricia Terry.)