Vivian Nun Halloran
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Vivian Nun Halloran received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA in 2002. Her area of specialty is Caribbean literature written in Spanish, English and French. Professor Halloran regularly teaches literary theory, postmodernism, and postcolonial literature and theory.
Professor Halloran is adjunct faculty with the African Studies Program, Individualized Major Program, and Human Biology.
Research Interests:
Professor Halloran’s research interests include depictions of slavery in both literature and museums, literary theory, postmodernism, cultural idenntities, feminism, queer and gender theory. Professor Halloran has also written about non-fiction narratives.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
“The Monstrous (Pseudo) Pregnant Body in The Rain God and Migrant Souls.” Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas’s Fictions. Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2005. Forthcoming in November
http://www.asu.edu/brp/newandforthcoming/Criticalmappings.html
“Working to Mourn: Remembering Derrida Through (Re)Reading.” forthcoming in PMC: Post Modern Culture. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/
“Tropical Bond.” Ian Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007. Eds. Edward P. Commentale, Stephen Watt, Skip Willman. Bloomington: Indiana University P, 2005.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0253217431/qid=1124903121/sr=2-1/ ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2767585-8995060?v=glance&s=books
“McDeath: Suicide and Mourning in Fast Food Nation, David’s Redhaired Death, and Supersize Me.” InterCulture 2 (May 2005):
http://www.fsu.edu/%7Eproghum/interculture/McDeath.htm
“Biting Reality: Extreme Eating and the Fascination with the Gustatory Abject.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 4 (Spring 2004): 27-42.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~englgrad/ijcs/mainstream/maintab.htm
“Negotiating (with) the Other: Prostitution, Double Consciousness and Diaspora in Caryl Phillips’ The Atlantic Sound and V. S. Naipaul’s Half a Life.” Entertext 3.2 (2003):
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/4042/entertext%20orignal%203.2//halloran.pdf
“White Fear and Black Disunity in Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s La Renuncia del Héroe Baltasar.” Monographic Review 15(1999): 201-210. http://www.monographicreview.org/volume_15.htm
Museum Talks
“Words, Images and Imperial War: On Human Suffering” IU Art Museum September 23, 2004.
“Sunny Side Up: Food, Popular Culture and the Diner Aesthetic.” IU Art Museum February 14, 2004.
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2005 Human Biology Summer Fellowship
2004 Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
April 2004 Overseas Travel Grant
2003-2004 Trustees Teaching Award
Teaching Interests
Caribbean Literature
Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Diasporic Literature and Theory
Food in Popular Culture
Nonfiction Narrative
Languages
Spanish—Native fluency (Puerto Rico)
English—Native fluency
French
Portuguese
Dutch
Interviews
Interviewed by Lauren Belles, “Cheating and Plagiarizing: Shortcuts students take in order to make the grade.” Fall 2003
http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/gallery/j201fall03/eunkim/lbelles/
Telephone: 812-856-0500
Fax: 812-855-2688
Office: Ballantine Hall 904
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