Department of Africana Studies

Britt Threatt graduated from Rhodes College with BAs in English literature and theatre; she earned a MA in Africana Studies from Brown University in 2019 and is now pursuing her doctorate in the same program. Her research intersects performance studies, literary theory, monster theory, and women’s history. She studies slave legacies in Black women’s science fiction and fantasy. Britt began working with the Sheridan Center in Spring 2019 through their Teaching Certificate program and joined the Writing Center that Fall 2019 where she has worked since.