Britney Henry

Britney earned her Master’s in English Literature from Auburn University in 2020. During her time at Auburn University, she worked in Ralph Draughon Library Special Collections and archives curating The Wade Hall 20th Century Paperback Collection exhibit and The Wade Hall 20th Century Paperback Digital Collection. She was a Rare Book School NEH-GBHI scholarship recipient in 2019, attending the Rare Book School course “The History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern” summer 2019. Britney is interested in film, literature, and book history as mediums that address disability, trauma, and exploitation. In her research, she has found herself concerned with characters’ relationship to the body and identity individually, but also societally when disability, trauma, and/or exploitation occurs.