Mary Ann Caws
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Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, art historian and literary critic.
She is currently a Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an expert on Surrealism and early modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. She has also written on Andre Breton, Robert Desnos, Rene Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell, Edmond Jabès and Joseph Cornell, edited anthologies on Isms, Surrealism, Twentieth Century French Literature, and translated Stephane Mallarme and Rene Char.
Among the positions she has held are President, Association for Study of Dada and Surrealism, 1971-75 and President, Modern Language Association of America, 1983.
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