Alice Brittan

Alice Brittan’s essays have been published in journals such as PMLA, Contemporary Literature, Australian Literary Studies, Safundi, The Dalhousie Review, and several book collections, including the Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies (Routledge, 2007) and Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019). From 2010-15, she was a regular contributor to the online journal, Open Letters Monthly: An Arts and Literature Review, where she wrote essays about Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elena Ferrante, Michael Cunningham, Kazuo Ishiguro, Nadine Gordimer, and Colm Tóibín. Her critical memoir, The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace (Bloomsbury 2022) was awarded the 2023 Grand Prize for Nonfiction by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. She is now working on a new work of creative nonfiction called Unspeakable Things: Writing from the Dark Forest.

Awards

• First Prize, Nonfiction. Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Research and Development Grant, Dalhousie University
• Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
• University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
• Jolliffe Gold Medal in English, Victoria College, University of Toronto Lucy Ingram
  
• Morgan Gold Medal, Victoria College, University of Toronto