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Alice Brittan
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Assistant Professor of English abrittan@Dal.ca |
Teaching and Research Areas:
Postcolonial literatures and theory; South African and Australian fiction and cultural history; the contemporary British novel.
Selected Publications:
"Loot: National Violence and the Art Object." Perspectives on Endangerment. Ed. Graham Huggan and Stephan Klasen, 2006. (In Press) "Australasia." The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Ed. John McLeod. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming, 2006); "War and the Book: The Diarist, the Cryptographer and The English Patient." PMLA. Special Issue: The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature. (Forthcoming, January 2006); "Reading Sex and Violence in André Brink's Rumours of Rain and A Dry White Season" Tydskrif vir Letterkunde/Journal of Literary Studies. 42.1 (2005): 55-77."A Ghost Story in Two Parts: Charles Dickens, Peter Carey, and Avenging Phantoms." Australian Literary Studies. 21.4 (2004): 40-55; “B-b-british Objects: Possession, Naming, and Translation in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon.” PMLA 117 (2002): 1158-1171; “Revolution and the Amplifier: Apartheid, July’s People, and the Manipulation of Scale” (under submission);
Awards:
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-2001; University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1999-2000; Jolliffe Gold Medal in English, Victoria College, University of Toronto 1995; Lucy Ingram Morgan Gold Medal, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1995.
Current Research:
Exchange and materiality in the history of British settlement; the novel; theories of reading and writing, particularly rewriting and quotation; the history of the material text.