Job title:
Associate Professor
Department:
Department of French
Department of Comparative Literature
Bio/CV:
Karl Britto is jointly appointment in the Department of French and is affiliated with the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008, the Berkeley campus's highest honor for teaching. (Ph.D., Yale University)
Research interests:
Karl Britto's teaching and research interests include francophone and anglophone colonial and postcolonial literatures of Vietnam, Africa and the Caribbean.
Publications include: "'Madame, je ne suis pas une jeune fille': Phạm Duy Khiêm's La Place d'un homme," French Studies 74.4 (October 2020) ; "The Place of Paris in Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction," in Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile, eds. Valérie Orlando and Pamela Pears (Lexington Books, 2019); "The Stranger's Voice," reprinted in Think in Public: A Public Books Reader, eds. Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom (Columbia University Press, 2019); Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, online at Public Books (September 2018); “L’ésprit de corps: French Civilization and the Death of the Colonized Soldier,” in Empire Lost: France and Its Other Worlds, ed. Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Lexington Books, 2008); “Tahar Ben Jelloun,” in The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman (Columbia University Press, 2006); Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality (Hong Kong University Press, 2004). His recent writing on Vietnamese diasporic authors Aimee Phan, Kim Thúy, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, as well as on Marie Ndiaye's Trois femmes puissantes, can be found online at Public Books (www.publicbooks.org).
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