Department of French and Italian

Mildred (Mimi) Mortimer

Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and
Professor of French

Bio | Publications | Research Interests | Curriculum Vitae

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, with a particular interest in the literature of the Maghreb. 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 press). Professor Mortimer currently serves as the Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies. In 2001 she was awarded a prestigious NEH Fellowship to work in Africa on Writing from the Hearth.

Publications:

Books:

• 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