Theron Britt

Associate Professor

Phone 901.678.4506 Email tbritt@memphis.edu Fax 901.678.2226 Office Patterson 453 Office Hours Call for Hours

Education

B.A., 1978, University of Oregon
Ph.D., 1990, University of California, Irvine

Academic Summary

Dr. Britt has a Ph.D in English with an Emphasis in Critical Theory. He teaches modern and contemporary American literature and literary theory.

Select Publications

• "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.
• "Desegregating the Self: Race and American Identity in Brown v. Board of Education." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 13.1 (Spring, 1996): 58-63.
• "Reversing the Romance: Class and Gender in the Supermarket Tabloids." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 21 (1996): 435-451.
• "The Common Property of the Mob: Democracy and Identity in Poe's William Wilson." Mississippi Quarterly 48.2 (1995): 197-210.