Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Rhodes College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Dr. Brittney Threatt received her Ph.D in Africana Studies at Brown University, where she specializes in Black Women’s Intellectual History, Black Literary Theory, and Black Performance. She also received her MA from Brown, and her BA, in English and Theatre, from Rhodes College. Her dissertation, “Monstrous Fugitivity: Reading Slave Legacies in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction,” explores the ways in which speculation, in both science fiction and literary fiction, produces arenas for emancipation amid the monstrous history of slavery.
