Mildred (Mimi) Mortimer
Professor of French
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Bio
 Mildred Mortimer received her B.A. in French Literature from Brooklyn College and, in the same field, an M.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor of French Literature, she specializes in Francophone African Literature. She is the author of Mouloud Mammeri, écrivain algerien (1982), Journeys through the French African Novel (1990), and Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean (2007), the author of a monograph on Assia Djebar (1988), the editor of Contes Africains (1972) and Maghrebian Mosaic: A literature in Transition(2001). She has translated two novels byLeïla Sebbar, Silence on the Shores (2000) and The Seine was Red. In 2001 she was awarded a prestigious NEH Fellowship to work in Africa on Writing from the Hearth.
Publications:
Books:
- Lexington Book, 2007
- Mouloud Mammeri, écrivain algerien, Sherbrooke: Naaman,
1982.
- Assia Djebar, Philadelphia: CELFAN, 1988.
- Journeys through the French African Novel, Portsmouth (NH):
Heinemann, 1990.
- Writing from the Hearth: Spatial Representation in Francophone
African Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean,
under contract with Heinemann., 2007
Edited Volumes:
- Contes Africains, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
- Maghrebian Mosaic: A Literature in Transition, Boulder: Lynne
Rienner, 2001.
Research Interests:
- Francophone Literature
- Women in African Literature
- African Novel
- Caribbean Francophone Novel
- Spatial Representations in African Writing
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