Department of English

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.