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Brittany Starr
Lecturer in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric
Phone: (860) 297-2455 Office Location: 115 Vernon Street
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Trinity College faculty member since 2025
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland
M.A., Mills College
B.A., Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Britt Starr studies how contemporary activists use digital media to challenge racist, sexist, ageist, and ableist emotion norms, as well as how digital platforms can be used to construct and circulate more liberatory alternatives. Her work has been published in Rhetoric Review, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, Teaching the History of the Book, and the University of Maryland academic writing textbook, Fearless Writing: Rhetoric, Inquiry, Argument. Britt has a PhD in English language, writing, and rhetoric, as well as graduate certificates in digital studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies from the University of Maryland. Whether she is teaching, researching, writing, course-designing, or program-building, Britt is driven by the possibility of collectively enabling joyful, livable futures for all.