WORKLIFE
Highlights
INFRA NOIR
Articles, Books, Chapters, and Events related to the Bucharest Surrealist group "Infra Noir" (Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Trost, Paul Paun, Virgil Teodorescu, and fellow travelers)
POWERS OF NO: THE INFRA NOIR SURREALIST GROUP
November 2026, University of Minnesota Press
How five dissident poets applied Surrealism to everyday life under totalitarian rule
"Powers of No is a significant and valuable contribution to scholarship on European surrealism, Romanian literary history, and avant-garde studies with a compelling narrative arc. Catherine L. Hansen recovers an overlooked chapter in surrealist history, advancing our understanding of how surrealist ideas evolved in response to political pressures and historical traumas." —Cosana Eram, University of the Pacific
"Powers of No charts the intense story of the Infra Noir surrealist group—its impassioned writings and wider contexts—in the language they need: the hairpin turns of dialectics, the fractious originality, the lost works, and the headlong rush into philosophy’s emergency exits. Its ‘knowing through mis-unknowing’ uncovers how surrealist thought and practice remain as necessary, and as unexpected, as ever." —Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Norwich University of the Arts
SURREALISM, 'PATAPHYSICS, DADA
Articles, Books, Chapters, Events
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURREALISM
Edited by Katharine Conley and Alyce Mahon
The IJS upholds the mission of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS), serving as a platform for Surrealist studies in the contemporary moment and for the digital age.
Managing and Associate Editors, Reviews Co-Editors
Joanna Pawlik, Maria Clara Bernal, AnneMarie Perl, Elliott King
Editorial Collective
Tiffany Barber, Krzysztof Fijałkowski, Felicity Gee, Andrea Gremels, Rachael Grew, Catherine L. Hansen, Christina Helflin, Danielle Johnson, Natalya Lusty, Catriona McAra, Jacqueline Rattray, Raymond Spiteri, Abigail Susik, Anna Watz, Simon Weir
EVENTS IN BEIRUT, LEBANON
2014-2016
* Talk at the American University of Beirut, "Sarane Alexandrian and Lebanese Surrealism" – December 15, 2014
* Lecture at the Orient-Institut Beirut conference The Avant-garde and its Networks: Surrealism in Paris, North Africa, and the Middle East from the 1930s: "Specialists in Revolt: the Turkish Surrealist Group" – November 14-15, 2016
* Talk with Adrian Notz (director of Cabaret Voltaire) and Saleh Barakat, "Cabaret Voltaire as Gesamtkunstwerk"; part of the event Yalla Dada at Station Beirut (in collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich) – November 22, 2016
