Brittany Atkins
Film Studies, Comic Studies, Literary Studies, Black Studies, Afro Diasporic Literature, Post Colonial Studies, Popular Culture, Digital Humanities, Speculative Fiction
Email: atkinsb4@msu.edu
Brittany Atkins (She/Her) is a PHD student in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of the West Indies where she pursued a Literatures in English major and a Film Studies minor. Her research is interested in an exploration of Black Horror work across film, comics, and literature and how the speculative fiction genre serves as site for decolonization, trauma work and resilience. Tied to this, she is also interested in the visual and literary constructions of monstrosity and how these formations aid in discourse about race, identity and belonging.