Degrees Held
B.A., 1978, University of Oregon
Ph.D., 1990, University of California, Irvine
Academic Summary
Theron Britt has a Ph.D in English with an Emphasis in Critical Theory. He teaches modern and contemporary American literature and literary theory.
Courses Taught
7/8000 Methods and Contexts of Literary Scholarship
7/8391 Modern American Novel
7324 American Literature, 1865-1914
7464 Contemporary American Literature
7701 History of Criticism and Theory
7702 Contemporary Criticism and Theory
Major Publications
- "The Common Property of the Mob: Democracy and Identity in Poe's William Wilson." Mississippi Quarterly 48.2 (1995): 197-210.
- "Desegregating the Self: Race and American Identity in Brown v. Board of Education." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 13.1 (Spring, 1996): 58-63.
- "Literature's Law." College Literature 25.1 (Winter 1998): 244-45.
- "Narrative Pragmatics and the Law in Lyotard's Just Gaming." College Literature 25.1 (1998): 190-99.
- "Reversing the Romance: Class and Gender in the Supermarket Tabloids." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 21 (1996): 435-451.
