Prof. Britt received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1998.  He regularly teaches courses in modern and contemporary Spanish literature and intellectual history. He is the author of Quixotism: The Denial of Spain’s Loss of Empire (Suny Press, 2005) as well as of various essays that study the role of the intellectual in the formation of nationalist and pan-nationalist identities in Spain and Latin America. Professor Britt's principal areas of interest include modern Spanish and Latin American nationalisms and their links to fascism, imperialism and post-coloniality.  He is currently writing a book on displacement in the Americas and editing a multi-author volume of essays on the legacy of the Enlightenment in the Spanish-speaking world.