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Dennis Britton
Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literatures
Email: dennis.britton@ubc.ca
Dr. Britton researches and teaches early modern English literature, with a focus on the history of race, critical race theory, Protestant theology, and the history of emotion.
He is the author of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance (2014), and has recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Spenser Studies on “Spenser and Race.” He is currently working on two books, Shakespeare and Pity: Feeling Difference on the Early Modern English Stage and Reforming Ethiopia: African-Anglo Relations in Protestant England.
Research Area: Medieval and Early Modern Literatures, the History of Race, Critical Race Theory, Protestant Theology, the History of Emotion