Karl Britto
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
- Office Location: 4215 Dwinelle
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3
Professor Brittoâs teaching and research interests include Francophone colonial and postcolonial literatures of Vietnam, Africa and the Caribbean.
Publications include:
“The Stranger’s Voice,” Public Books, August 1, 2015
Preface to new edition of Nguyen Phan Longâs 1921 Le Roman de Mademoiselle Lys (DatAsia Press, 2014)
âKim ThĂșy: A Way with Words,â Public Books, October 15, 2014
âMarie Ndiaye: One Powerful Writer,â Public Books, July 24, 2013
âLost and Found: Aimee Phanâs The Reeducation of Cherry Truong,â Public Books, September 5, 2012
âLâĂ©sprit de corps: French Civilization and the Death of the Colonized Soldier,â in Empire Lost: France and Its Other Worlds, ed. Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Lexington Books, 2009)
Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality (Hong Kong University Press, 2004)
âTahar Ben Jelloun,â in The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman (Columbia University Press, 2006)
ââYou donât know this but I keep telling youâ: Memory and Disavowal in Monique Thuy-Dung Truongâs âKellyâ,â in Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue, eds. Jane Winston and Leakthina Ollier (Palgrave Global Publishing at St. Martinâs Press, 2001)
âHistory, Memory, and Narrative Nostalgia: Pham Duy Khiemâs Nam et Sylvie,â Yale French Studies 98 (2000)