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  • Vivian Nun Halloran

Vivian Nun Halloran

Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities, Professor of English

Portrait of Vivian Nun Halloran.
Phone:
812-856-7156
Email:
vhallora@indiana.edu
Website:
https://english.indiana.edu/about/faculty/halloran-vivian.html
Department:
Office of the Executive Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Department of English
Campus:
IU Bloomington
Owen Hall
College of Arts and Sciences
Bloomington,, IN 47405-7101

Education

  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature, UCLA, 2002
  • M.A., Comparative Literature, UCLA, 1996
  • B.A., Spanish, magna cum laude, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1994
  • B.A., English, magna cum laude, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1994

Biography

Vivian Nun Halloran is a scholar of Caribbean literature, food studies, contemporary American and world literature, postmodernism, and popular culture. She is Professor of English, core faculty in the Human Biology Program, and is affiliate faculty in the departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese.

She is the author of Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging (2023) and The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora (2016) from Ohio State University Press and Exhibiting Slavery: The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum (2009) from University of Virginia Press.

Dr. Halloran was born and raised in Puerto Rico and earned a B.A. in English and Spanish from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA in 2002 and has been at IU Bloomington since then.

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