Warren Motte

Warren F. Motte is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder.[1] His focus is contemporary writing, with an emphasis upon experimental, avant-garde, or other subversive forms of both fiction and poetry.[2] Motte has authored or edited many volumes of literary criticism, including the first book-length study of the renowned French writer Georges Perec, an authoritative book on the experimental writing group known as Oulipo, and major studies of other writers such as Edmond Jabès, Marie NDiaye, Christine Montalbetti, Antoine Volodine, and Jean Rolin. Motte's recent books include Mirror Gazing (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014),[3] a study of over 12,000 mirror scenes in literature, and French Fiction Today (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017), devoted to the contemporary French novel. In 2015 Motte was named a Knight in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Republic.[4] In 2016 he was named a College Professor of Distinction by the University of Colorado Boulder, and in 2018 he was named a Distinguished Professor, the highest honor the University of Colorado awards to its faculty members.[5]

Warren F. Motte
OccupationWriter, Professor of French Literature
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
Université de Bordeaux
SubjectFrench Literature
Comparative Literature
Theory of Literature
Notable awardsOrdre des Palmes Académiques

He is married to a French woman with whom he has two sons, one of whom is musician Nathaniel Motte, one half of the American electronic music duo 3OH!3.

Education

Motte received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature as well as an A.M. and Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral dissertation on Georges Perec was the first book-length study of the now-famous experimental writer. Motte also received a Maîtrise in Anglo-American Literature from the Université de Bordeaux.[6]

Works

Books

Edited Volumes

  • Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986, revised edition: Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998, rpt. 2007)
  • Literary Ludics (special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, 31.4, 1991)
  • Alteratives (Lexington: French Forum Monographs, 1993, with Gerald Prince)
  • Jacques Jouet (special issue of SubStance, 96, 2001)
  • Pereckonings: Reading Georges Perec (special issue of Yale French Studies, 105, 2004, with Jean-Jacques Poucel)
  • The French Novel Now (special issue of SubStance, 111, 2006)
  • The Editions P.O.L (special issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 30.3, 2010)
  • Marie NDiaye’s Worlds/Mondes de Marie NDiaye (special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, 53.2, 2013, with Lydie Moudileno)
  • Experimental Writing (special issue of American Book Review, 37.5, 2016, with Jeffrey Di Leo)
  • Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements (Aurora: JEF Books, 2018, with Jeffrey Di Leo)

References
  1. "Department of Italian and French: Warren Motte", University of Colorado Boulder, retrieved 1 August 2016
  2. "Work and Play: A Conversation with Warren Motte", Words Without Borders, retrieved 1 August 2016
  3. "Mirror Gazing by Warren Motte", World Literature Today, retrieved 1 August 2016
  4. "CU-Boulder's Warren Motte garners rare distinction", Boulder Daily Camera, retrieved 14 January 2018
  5. "Distinguished Professorships", University of Colorado, retrieved 18 December 2018
  6. "Department of Italian and French: Warren Motte", University of Colorado Boulder, retrieved 1 August 2016
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