Research Papers and Invited Talks

Catriona McAra (Photo by Alicia Bruce)

Catriona McAra (Photo by Alicia Bruce)

• ‘Surrealism and the Fairy Tale’,  Reimagining Reality in Surrealist Art, Literature and Film Panel, Material Meanings:  Third Biannual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, University of Kent (7-9 September 2012). Scheduled.

• ‘Preposterous Surrealisms: “Mieke Bal’s” Visual Intertexts,’ 38th Annual Association of Art Historians conference, Open University, Milton Keynes (30 March 2012).

• ‘Dorothea Tanning: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,’ TATE Liverpool scholars event (12 January 2012).

• ‘Surrealism’s Curiosity: Lewis Carroll and the Femme-enfant,’  The Wonder of Alice: Images, Myths and Realities, TATE Liverpool (18 November 2011).

• ‘Animated Anti-Fairies: The Films of Tessa Farmer,’ Good Neighbours: Faeries, Folklore and the Art of Tessa Farmer, Little Shop of Horrors (1 October 2011). 

• ‘Of Paper Cut-outs and Other Worlds: Cottingley, Collage, Cornell and Conan Doyle’, The Other Conan Doyle, Universität Leipzig (21 May 2011).

• ‘Dorothea Tanning’s History of Art: Painting, French Theory and Visual Intertexts’, Institute for Art History, University of Glasgow (27 April 2011).

• Joint paper with Victoria Carruthers (University of Sydney), ‘A Surrealist Ocean: Dorothea Tanning’s Feminine Metaphors’, Association of Art Historians 37^th Annual Conference, University of Warwick (31 March 2011).

• ‘Surrealism and the (Anti-) Fairy Tale’, Myths and Fairy Tales in Film and Literature post-1900, University of York (26 March 2011).

• ‘ “A Child’s Garden of Verses”: The Motif of the Child from Impressionism to Surrealism’, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (11 February 2011).

• ‘Caillois’ Broken Toys: Myth of Secret Treasures in Surrealism’, Childish Things Seminar: The Shadow of the Adult: Children, Toys and Plays in Film and Art Since the 1980s,  The Fruitmarket Gallery (14 January 2011).

• ‘Re-reading Max Ernst’s Deux Enfants Through the Kunstmärchen of the Brothers Grimm’, Fremde Welten – Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert, University of Hamburg (1 October 2010).

• ‘Sadeian Women: Violence in the Anti-tales of Carrington, Carter and Tanning’, Violence and Reconciliation: Second Annual Critical Theory Conference, University of Exeter (24 September 2010).

• ‘Alice Redone’, talk for the Art History Society, University of Glasgow (17 September 2010).

• ‘ “Blind Date”: Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealist Anti-tale’, Anti-tales: The Uses of Disenchantment, University of Glasgow (13 August 2010).

• ‘Tanning’s Sources: Pour Gustave l’adoré’, Out of Time: Surrealism and Anachronism, specialist research seminar at TATE Modern (29 July 2010).

• ‘Re-reading Max Ernst’s Deux Enfants Through the Kunstmärchen of the Brothers Grimm’, Second  Bonn Workshop, University of Bonn, (3 June 2010).

• ‘Re-reading Surrealism Through Tanning’s Chasm: The Femme-Enfant Tears Through the Text’, Transgression and Its Limits, University of Stirling (30 May 2010).

• ‘Of Broken Toys as Anti-tales: Fairytale Fetishism in Surrealism?’, Dada and Surrealism in Play, Association of Art Historians 36^th Annual Conference, University of Glasgow (16 April 2010).

• ‘Surrealism as Metaphor: The Image in Leonora Carrington’s Visual Narratives and Short Stories’,The Image in the Short Story in English, University of Angers (19 March 2010).

• ‘Francesca Woodman: The Femme-Enfant Tears Through the Text’, Shadow Sisters, Research Forum, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (26 February 2010).

• ‘Awakening from Surrealism? Recurrent Narratives in the Late Paintings of Dorothea Tanning’, Painting: Series, Space and Style, Research Forum at TATE Liverpool (22 October 2009).

• ‘Quoting Andersen: Dorothea Tanning’s Appropriation of “The Little Mermaid” ’, First Bonn Workshop, University of Glasgow (12 June 2009).

• ‘Surrealism as Anti-Nursery: The Uses of Disenchantment in the Work of Dorothea Tanning’, Arts to Enchant: Formations of Fantasy in Visual Culture, University of Glasgow (30 May 2009).

• ‘Re-reading Surrealism Through Angela Carter: The Femme-Enfant Tears Through the Text’, The Fairy Tale After Angela Carter, University of East Anglia (25 April 2009).

• ‘Alice Undone: Re-reading the Work of Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning Through the Influence of Lewis Carroll’, New Perspectives on Surrealism and Its Legacies: Sixth Annual PhD Symposium, TATE Modern (28  November 2008).

• ‘Prescription Narratives: Re-reading Joseph Cornell’s Pharmacy Series as Modernist Anti-dote’, The Apothecary’s Chest: Magic, Art, Medication, University of Glasgow (2 November 2007).