McDonough, Tom 1969-

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McDONOUGH, Tom 1969-

PERSONAL: Born October 15, 1969, in Bayonne, NJ; son of Thomas and Sandra (Harz) McDonough; married Aruna D'Souza (an art historian), August 24, 1997. Education: Rutgers University, B.A., 1991; studied at Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992-93; New York University, M.A., Ph.D., 1998.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of Art History, Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, assistant professor of art history, 1998—. Canadian Center for Architecture, visiting scholar, 2000-01.

MEMBER: Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art, College Art Association of America, Society of Architectural Historians.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Guy Debord and the Situationist International:Texts and Documents, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Another City for Another Life: Constant's New Babylon, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2001. Contributor to periodicals, including October, Grey Room, and Art in America.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing The Invisible Flaneuse? Gender and Public Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris, with Aruna D'Souza, for Manchester University Press (Manchester, England); "The Beautiful Language of My Century": Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, completion expected in 2004; Missed Encounters: The Middle-Class Misrecognition of Urban Experience in the Modern World, 2005; research on montage practices in postwar France, 1945-68, in the visual arts, literature, and film, and on the rediscovery of collage as an avant-garde strategy; research on anxiety and the experience of the modern city from the later eighteenth century to the twentieth century, and on the encounter with the stranger as a source of threat to the individual subject.