Telling Dreams: Oneiric Circulation in Early Modern New France

The paper will discuss the dreams of Huron, Algonkin, Jesuit and Ursuline people in 17th-c. Canada.

Mary Baine Campbell is Professor of English, Brandeis University

Her research interests at present include 1) the early-modern history of dreams and dream theory in light of developments in both representation (including poetry) and natural philosophy or science; 2) utopia, past and present.

Areas of expertise: Medieval and early modern literature and culture. Poetry. Travel writing. History of science.

Recent publications:

Campbell, Mary Baine. ""The Queernes of Dreams"." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies special issue, "Devotion and Intellectual Labor," ed. Joanna Picciotto. 44:1 (Winter, 2014) (2014). (forthcoming)

Campbell, Mary Baine (trans. with Daniel Bequemot). "L'histoire du 'rêve'." Bulletin de la Societe francaise pour l'histoire des sciences humaines 32. (2008). (forthcoming)

Poetry Reading for Salt Anthology: Women's Work. performed poems by myself and by Marilyn Hacker, from Salt anthology Campbell, Mary Baine. Poets' House, New York, NY, Sept. 22, 2012.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "The Inner Eye: Early Modern Dreaming and Dismebodied Sight." Dreams, Dreamers and Visions: The Early Modern Atlantic World. Ed. Ann Marie Plane and Leslie Tuttle. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013

Campbell, Mary Baine. "[untitled]." Rev. of New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period, by Chloe Houston, ed.. Journal of Early Modern History vol. 16:4/5 2012: 431-433.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Uses of the Imperative," "Money," "Sexual Terrorist," "Warning: Nuclear Waste Dump" (rpt. from my volume The World, the Flesh and Angels). 2013. Cengage, Robert D. Maria, College Handbook of Creative Writing (second edition). (poems, in handbook anthology of creative writing).

Campbell, Mary Baine. ""Beast Men and the End of Difference: Retif de la Bretonne's Decouverte Australe"." Etudes Retiviennes vol. 43. Trans. Camille Van Den Burghe. (2011): 137-148.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Forward." A Knights' Legacy: Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England. Ed. Ladan Niayesh. Manchester [UK]: Manchester University Press,, 2011

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Speedy Messengers: Fiction, Cryptography, SpaceTravel and Francis Godwin's 'The Man in the Moone'." Yearbook of English Studies (special issue: "Travel and Prose Fiction in Early Modern England" (annual serial). 41:1 (2011): 190-204.

Campbell, Mary Baine/ ID450 Collective. "“Writing the Plural: Sexual Fantasies,” anthology of experimental writings for “Honoring Eve: A Special Issue on the Work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick," ed. Erin Murphy and J. Keith Vincent .." Criticism 52. 2 (2011): 293-307.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Artificial Men": Alchemy, Transubstantiation and the Homunculus." Republics of Letters (in Arcades Project, Stanford University), special issue "Between Experience and Experiment" 1. 2 (2010)

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Immaterial Objects: Things in Dreams." Exemplarium Vol. 22. No. 2 (2010): 157-7

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Spiritual Quest and Social Space." Oxford Medieval Handbook. 2010 ed. Ed. Elaine Traherne and Greg Walker. Oxford, New York, et al.: Oxford University Press, 2010