Patrick Greaney鈥檚 research focuses on literature, design, and modern and contemporary art.
He also works as a literary translator, editor, and curator. He has curated exhibitions of contemporary art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and听the Museum of Contemporary Art Boulder. From 2014 to 2020, he edited a literary translation series for Les Figues Press in Los Angeles.
Professor Greaney received a BA in comparative literature from Yale University and an MA in German Studies and a PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins University. He also studied at the University of Konstanz, the Charles S. Singleton Center for Italian Studies in Florence, the University of Buenos Aires, and the 脡cole normale sup茅rieure (rue d鈥橴lm) in Paris.
Recent and forthcoming publications:
Translated and edited book: Heimrad B盲cker, On Documentary Poetry (Winter Editions, 2024)
Article: 鈥淔assbinder, Functionalism, and the Beauty of Braun Design.鈥� Critical Inquiry 51.2 (Winter 2025), Article accepted for publication.
Co-edited book: Magical Episodes and Other Synchronicities: The Transhemispheric Correspondence of Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa, 1970-1989 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025), co-edited with David J. Getsy
Book chapter: 鈥淎 Pavilion for a Counterpublic: Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl鈥檚 Invitation of the Soft Machine and Her Angry Body Parts,鈥� in Agust铆n Corti, ed., Alles inszeniert? Leben, Identit盲t, Geschichte (LIT Verlag, 2023)
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Representative publications:
Monographs:
Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art听(University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin听(University of Minnesota Press, 2008)
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Edited books:
Co-edited with Sabine Zelger,听An Austrian Avant-Garde听(Les Figues Press, 2020)
Conceptualism and Other Fictions: The Collected Writings of Eduardo Costa, 1965-2015听听(Les Figues Press, 2016)
Guido Ignatti: Setup听(Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015)
Heimrad B盲cker: Landscape M听(Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013)
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Exhibitions:
鈥淕uido Ignatti: Setup.鈥� Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2016.
鈥淕uido Ignatti: Tapiados.鈥� David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, 2016.
鈥淗eimrad B盲cker: Landscape M.鈥� Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2013-2014.
鈥淐ausalgia: Michael Merighi鈥檚 Photographs of VALIE EXPORT.鈥� Counterpath Gallery, Denver, 2013.
鈥淰anessa Place: The Lawyer is Present.鈥� Exhibition and performance. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013.
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Translated books:
Greaney and Zelger, eds.,听An Austrian Avant-Garde听(Les Figues Press, 2020)
Urs Allemann,听The Old Man and the Bench: A Five-Month Twaddle听(Dalkey Archive Press, 2015)
Heimrad B盲cker,听SEASCAPE听(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013)
Heimrad B盲cker,听transcript听(Dalkey Archive Press, 2010). Translated with Vincent Kling.