Tom Conley (scholar)

Tom Clark Conley
Born (1943-01-01) January 1, 1943
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Alma materLawrence University, Columbia University, University of Wisconsin–Madison
OccupationsPhilologist, Professor, Translator
EmployerHarvard University
Known forStudies in early modern French literature, cartography, and cinema
Notable workFilm Hieroglyphs, The Self-Made Map, An Errant Eye
SpouseVerena Conley
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2003), Honorary Doctorate from Université Blaise-Pascal (2011)
WebsiteRadcliffe Institute Profile

Tom Conley (born 1943) is an American scholar of literature, cartography, and film.  Currently the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Research Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Conley was formerly affiliated with the Departments of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures. Conley is noted for his interdisciplinary work exploring relations between space and writing in early modern France, the history of cartography, and cinema.