Dr. Alice Brittan

Associate Professor

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Biography

Alice Brittans essays have been published in journals such as PMLA, Contemporary Literature, Australian Literary Studies, Safundi, and Dalhousie Review, as well as in various book collections. Some notable works include the Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies (2007) and Modernism, Postcolonialism, Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 Present (2019). She contributed regularly to the online journal Open Letters Monthly, focusing on authors like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elena Ferrante, Michael Cunningham, Kazuo Ishiguro, Nadine Gordimer, and Colm Tóibín. Her critical memoir, Art Astonishment: Reflections Gifts Grace, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022 and won the 2023 Grand Prize for Nonfiction at the Generation Indie Book Awards. Currently, she is working on a new creative nonfiction piece titled Unspeakable Things: Writing Dark Forest.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2015-01-01 — Present

Dalhousie University • Halifax, NS, Canada

Associate Professor in the Department of English focusing on contemporary literature and creative criticism.

Awards

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Grand Prize Nonfiction

2023-01-01