Vivian Nun Halloran
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Director, Asian American Studies
Office: Ballantine Hall 904
Phone: (812) 856-0500
E-mail: vhallora 
indiana.edu
Interdisciplinary Connections
I am Associate Director of American Studies for 2009-2010 and, since 2005, I have been a faculty fellow in the Program in HumanBiology. Other programs or centers with which I am affiliated at IU include the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latino Studies, Cultural Studies, African Studies and the Anthropology of Food concentration.My Work
My research and teaching interests are profoundly interdisciplinary. I am interested in the interconnections between art, history and literature; autobiography, poetry and the novel; scientific discourse, medicine and popular literature.
My current research focuses on non-fiction literature about food. I am at work on a book-length manuscript about culinary memoirs written by immigrants to the United States and/or their descendents. In my food-themed classes, I explore the connections between literature that mentions food, the literary merits of food criticism and culinary memoirs, how scientific research and concerns about sustainability have produced a new type of food journalism with a social conscience, and the importance of food-entertainment in global popular culture.
Other areas of research I am currently working on include memory studies, the literature of mourning, and the role of history in African American and Latino/a children's literature.
Publication Highlights
Books
Exhibiting Slavery: The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, November 2009).
Selected Articles
"Race, Creole and National Identities in Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea and Phillips’ Cambridge." Small Axe 21 (2006): 87-94.
"Performative Mourning: Remembering Derrida Through (Re)Reading." PMC: Post Modern Culture 15.3 (2005).
Current Projects
Blackness, Diaspora and Global Culture. Eds. Matthew Pratt Guterl and Vivian Nun Halloran.
The Immigrant Kitchen: Family Recipes and the Culinary Memoir. In progress.
"Travel and Family in Julia Alvarez’s Canon." Literature of Migration from the Islands to the Diaspora: Voces Caribeñas. Eds. Vanessa Perez and Kelly Comfort. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming in January 2010.
"Gender and the Doctor Persona in Popular MD-Authored Weight Loss Literature." Prescribing Gender in Medicine and Narrative. Eds. Angela Laflen and Marcelline Block. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Forthcoming.
