Beth Britt is a rhetorical theorist and critic whose research focuses on legal rhetoric. She is currently working on two projects: a study of 19th century legal education as rhetorical education and a study of intervention programs for domestic abusers.

Prof. Britt teaches undergraduate courses in writing and rhetoric, including “Introduction to Rhetoric,” “Writing for Prelaw,” “Rhetoric of Law,” and “Style and Editing.” At the graduate level, she has recently taught courses in rhetorical theory, rhetorical education, and law & the humanities.

Selected Publications

• Reimagining Advocacy: Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic. RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.
• “Listening Rhetorically to Defending Our Lives: Identification and Advocacy in Intimate Partner Abuse.” Law, Culture and the Humanities 10:1 (2014): 155-178.
• “Dangerous Deliberation: Subjective Probability and Rhetorical Democracy in the Jury Room.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 39:2 (2009): 103-123.
• “Rhetoric and Ethnography.” The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Vol. IX. Ed. Wolfgang Donsbach. Oxford, UK, and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
• “The Rhetorical Work of Institutions.” Critical Power Tools: Cultural Studies and Technical Communication. Ed. J. Blake Scott, Bernadette Longo, and Katherine V. Wills. Albany: SUNY P, 2006. 133-150.
• Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility. Inaugural volume of the Series in Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P. August 2001.

Awards and Honors

• Faculty Fellow, Northeastern University Humanities Center, 2018-19.
• Excellence in Teaching Award. Northeastern University, 2007.
• Predoctoral Grant. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1995-96.

Professional Associations

• Rhetoric Society of America
• Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
• National Communication Association
• Association of Law, Culture and the Humanities
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Conference on College Composition and Communication