Brian Britt

• Religion and Literature
• Theory of Religion and Culture
• Hebrew Bible
• Modern Jewish Thought

• Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992

• Interim Director, School of Performing Arts
• Society of Biblical Literature
• American Academy of Religion
• International Walter Benjamin Society

• Fellowship for Research, DAAD, 2012-2013
• Fellow, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, November-December 2008, September-October 2012, and June 2015
• Phi Beta Kappa Sturm Award for Research, 2007

Books

Postsecular Benjamin: Agency and Tradition. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016.

Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011.

Rewriting Moses: The Narrative Eclipse of the Text. London: T & T Clark, 2004.

Walter Benjamin and the Bible. New York: Continuum, 1996.  Second Edition: Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, 2003.

Alexandra Cuffel and Brian Britt, eds. Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Premodern World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Journal Articles

“Identity and Survival in Deutsche Menschen,” Benjamin-Studien 3 (2014): 83-104.

“Religion and Literature: Outsider, Tradition, and Transcendence,” Religion Compass 8/1 (2014): 11-24.

“Curses Left and Right: Hate Speech and Biblical Tradition,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78 (2010): 633-661.     

“The Schmittian Messiah in Agamben’s The Time That Remains,” Critical Inquiry 36 (2010): 262-287.