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Nathaniel seth warren motte
Warren Motte is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. His focus is contemporary writing, with an emphasis upon experimental, avant-garde, or other subversive forms of both fiction and poetry. Motte has written seven books and edited nine volumes of literary criticism, including the first published 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 most recent book is Mirror Gazing (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014), a study of over 12,000 mirror scenes in literature. In 2015 Motte received the Ordre des Palmes Académiques from the French Republic and in 2016 he was named a College Professor of Distinction by the University of Colorado Boulder.
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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 published study of the now-famous experimental writer. Motte also received a Maîtrise in Anglo-American Literature from the Université de Bordeaux.
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