Brittany Wilson
Brittany Wilson

BA in English & Psychology - Wesley College 2017
MA in English - Salisbury University, 2019
PhD in English - University of Missouri, in progress
Certificates:
Online Teaching - University of Missouri, 2020
TEFL, 120 hour program - University of California, Berkeley - International House, 2020
Areas of Study
- Contemporary Literature
- Women's and Gender Studies in English
- Global Anglophone Literature
Pronouns: she/her
Britt Wilson (she/her) is a PhD student and graduate instructor at Mizzou. Her research focuses on the ways that decoloniality, power, and resistance manifest in contemporary speculative fiction by womxn writers of color. Her work understands womxn’s writing as generative spaces for imagining the possibilities for worlds otherwise -- spaces that are indispensable to the vision for and creation of socially just futures.
In addition to her work as a literature and composition instructor, Britt is also the the graduate intern for MU’s Composition Program, an assistant editor at NCTE’s College English, a researcher for the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network’s Women Speak project, a Deaton Scholar(on the Scholar Advisory Board), and a cat mom of two.
Gus Reid Award for Excellence in Composition Teaching -- 2022
English Graduate Fellowship Award -- 2022
Best Graduate Student Paper Award (3rd place) -- MU English Department -- 2022
Deaton Scholars Program, Spring 2022 Cohort; Fall 2022 Scholar Advisory Board