ASTRID RUFFA

Doctor of Letters and historian of literature, Astrid Ruffa is an associate researcher in the French section of the University of Lausanne and advisor to the rectorate in the field of research at the University of Geneva. Establishing a dialogue between literature, arts, sciences and philosophy, she is a specialist in surrealism and, in particular, the work of Salvador Dalí. She is the author of Dalí et le dynamisme des formes (Presses du réel, 2009) as well as a large number of articles focused on the literary, artistic, scientific or philosophical imagination of the surrealists. She has also co-organized the international conference Salvador Dalí à la croisée des savoirs (Unil, 2007) and has contributed to several exhibition catalogs, such as Locus Solus, Impressions of Raymond Roussel (2011), Dalí Eureka (2017), Dalí: une histoire de la peinture (Monaco, 2019), Surréalice (Strasbourg, 2022). Giving an important role to scientific popularization, she has, among other things, collaborated with the Reina Sofia Museum to offer visitors a small work guiding them through Dalí's productions (Salvador Dalí. A spiritual Gaze, Ed. La Central, 2013). She has also given public lectures around Dali, Picasso, Chirico and Magritte at the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art in Lugano (LAC) and the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Publications

• Lien vers l'ensemble des publications d'Astrid Ruffa
• « La "Grande Mannequin" de René Crevel : regards croisés », Mélusine numérique. Almanach du siècle surréaliste, hors-série, 2024/09/01, p. 119-122
• Picasso, a Model Shaping Dalí’s “Spectral Surrealism”: Towards New Mythologies dans le site thedali.org

Texts by Astrid Ruffa (Mélusine site)

• Salvador Dalí et ses « mythes » rebelles

Texts of Astrid Ruffa, Mélusine Journal (paper)

• Salvador Dalí dans la foulée des sciences de la forme, Nr.27, p.99-108

Texts of Astrid Ruffa, Mélusine Journal (digital)

• La « Grande Mannequin » de René Crevel : regards croisés, Nr.4, p.119-122