Research Interests
I am currently working primarily as a translator of contemporary French authors, seeking publishers for several books.
Education
PhD Yale 1970-74
Awards and Honors
French Palmes Académiques: recognition by the French government for service
Courses Taught
Not teaching at this time
Additional Campus Affiliations
Research Faculty, French and Italian
Research Faculty, European Union Center
Research Faculty, Center for Global Studies
Highlighted Publications
Books
- Christine Angot. An Impossible Love, a translation. Trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer. New York: Archipelago Books, 2021.
- Julia Kristeva, The Enchanted Clock, a translation. . Trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
- Philppe Sollers, Casanova the Irresistible, a translation with an introduction. . Trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
- Proust en perspectives: Visions et révisions. Co-edited with Katherine Kolb. Revue d'études proustiennes vol.2. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015.
- For Love or for Money: Balzac's Rhetorical Realism. . Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2011.
- Philippe Sollers, Mysterious Mozart. A translation with introduction. . Trans. Armine Kotin Mortimer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Recent Book Contributions
- "Le Père Goriot: Arrivisme and the Parisian Morality Tale." Cambridge Companion to Balzac. . Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- " Autofiction et Altérité. Autofiction/Allofiction: L’Après-vivre." Autour de Serge Doubrovsky. . 2010.
- "The Genetic Record of a Voice: Variants in Barthes’s Le Plaisir du texte." Genetic Criticism and the Creative Process: Essays from Music, Literature, and Theater. . 2009.
- "Connecting Links: Beginnings and Endings." Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices. . 2009.
Recent Journal Articles
- "Stendhal the Sollersian: A Twenty-First Century Autoportrait." Dix-Neuf 19.1 (2015): 67-79.
- "Fiction as Cover Story in Sollers’s La Fête à Venise." French Forum (2013): 189-203.
- "The Invisible Punctuation of Sollers’s Paradis." MLN (2012): 924-41.
- "Graphic Spaces: Veyron Illustrates Sollers." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 15.3 (2011): 329-37.
- "Autofiction as Allofiction: Doubrovsky’s L’Après-vivre." L'Esprit Créateur 49.3 (2009): 22-35.
- "The Double History of César Birotteau." Lingua Romana 8.1 (2009):
- "The Third Closet: Sollers’s War." Yale French Studies (2009): 169-82.
- "Listening to Barthes with Millet: A Loving Overture." L’Esprit Créateur 47.2 (2007): 5-16.
- "The Essay According to Sollers: A Personal and Parabolic Genre.." Romanic Review 97 (2006): 33-49.
- "Paradis de Philippe Sollers: Une métaphysique de l’infini." La Règle du Jeu 26 (2004): 87-132.
- "Sollers's le 'secret', espionage and autofiction." Esprit Createur 42.4 (2002): 35-44.
- "The MRIs of sollers's fictions." Critique-Studies In Contemporary Fiction 43.4 (2002): 379-391.
Recent Publications
Angot, C., & Mortimer, A. K., (TRANS.) (2021). An Impossible Love. Archipelago Books.
Mortimer, A. K. (2019). Balzac’s Muse: The Geographical Method. The Balzac Review / Revue Balzac, 2019(2), 155-165. https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09607-8.p.0155
Kristeva, J., & Mortimer, A. K., (TRANS.) (2018). The Enchanted Clock: A Novel. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/kris18046
Mortimer, A. K. (2017). Le Père Goriot: Arrivisme and the Parisian Morality Tale. In O. Heathcote, & A. Watts (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Balzac (pp. 81-96). Article 6 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107588929.009
Sollers, P., & Mortimer, A. K., (TRANS.) (2016). Casanova the Irresistible. University of Illinois Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt18j8wrf