ARTICLES 

  “More Than a Black Rat Sonofab----: Animality in Defining Americanness and the Human in Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son.” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, vol. 12, no. 1, 2023, 83-98. 

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Forum: “After Morrison”. Co-authored with Corrine Collins, Stephanie Li, Howard Rambsy II, Herman Beavers and Ryan Sharp, Women’s Studies, 2023, doi: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2170376. 

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“Hippolyta’s Awakening Through Spiritual Warfare in Lovecraft Country (2020).” Studies in the Fantastic, no. 12, 2022, p. 1-17, doi:10.1353/sif.2021.0010. 

 

“To Fathom His Very Roots: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance and ‘Evidence’ of His Literary Racial Passing.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021, p. 69-80, doi:10.1353/jnc.2021.0008.

 

“‘My Uncle’s Cousin’s Great-Grandma Were a Cherokee,’ and I Am Descended from an Ashanti King: The American Blood Idiom in the Simple Stories.” The Langston Hughes Review, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, p. 29-46, doi:10.5325/langhughrevi.27.1.0029

 

“Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity.” MELUS, vol. 45, no. 3, 2020, p. 104-128, doi:10.1093/melus/mlaa033

 

“Fight for your life”: Segregation, Im/mobilities, and the Fight for African American Futures in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One is Coming to Save Us.” Co-authored with Maia Butler, North Carolina Literary Review, no. 29, 2020, 120-133.

 

 “Leaving Home to Return Home—Writing North Carolina Homeplace from the Particular to the Universal: An Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts.” Co-authored with Maia Butler, North Carolina Literary Review, no. 28, 2019, 6-19. 

 

“Self-Realization in a Restricted World: Janie’s Early Realization in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” The Journal of Traditions and Beliefs, vol. 4, no. 5, 2014, 1-11.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Reparations and Passing in Pactolus Prime.” Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Works of Albion Tourgée, Eds. Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine, Fordham UP, 2023, 57-69. 

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“’To Avenging My People’: Speculating Revenge for U.S. Slavery in Dwayne Alexander Smith’s Forty Acres.” 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past, edited by Ruth Maxey, Palgrave, 2020, 245-263.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“College of William & Mary Indian School.” Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present, edited by Russell M. Lawson and Benjamin A. Lawson, Vol. 1. Greenwood, 2019, 43-44.

 

“‘Mulatto’ Experience in Antebellum America.” Race and Ethnicity in the United States: From Pre-contact to the Present, edited by Russell M. Lawson and Benjamin A. Lawson, Vol. 1. Greenwood, 2019, 151-153.

 

REVIEWS

Review of The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States by Derrick R. Spires. African American Review, vol. 55, no. 2-3, Summer/Fall 2022, 239-241. 

 

Review of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs edited by Tess Chakkalakal and Kenneth W. Warren. Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, vol. 29, no. 1, 2022, 131-134.

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“The Year in Conferences—2020.” Co-authored with Rachael Heffner Burns, E. Dean, Sam Placensia, and Brianne Dayley, ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, vol. 67, no. 1, 2021, p. 279-348, doi:10.1353/esq.2021.0011.

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WEB PUBLICATION

“Albion Tourgée on the Color Line.” ANZASA Online, 30 June 2020. 

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SELECTED PUBLIC TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“The Pariah of ‘Miss’: A Fictionalized Glimpse of Black Enslaved Wives,” “‘The End’ in Historical Fiction of and About the Nineteenth Century.” C19 Conference, Pasadena, CA, March 14-16, 2024

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“Uncovering Black Indigeneity in the New Negro Literary Canon,” Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego, March 11-13, 2024

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“Into the ‘Glades: Zora Neale Hurston and African American Indigenization.” SouthTalk Series, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, February 7, 2024

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“Rejecting the “One-Drop Rule” in Indigenous Literature Syllabi.” “Rethinking the Syllabus: A Roundtable on Indigenous Studies Pedagogy,” MLA Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 4-7, 2024

 

“Creating Love Over Coffee: Black and Indigenous Collaboration at Fisk University's Race Relations Institutes.” “Love In a Hopeless Place: Nurturing Books, Growing Together,” American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec, November 2-5, 2023

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“Black Indigeneity in the Periphery.” McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 18, 2023

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“Racecraft in Lovecraft: Race in Horror and Sci-Fi Lecture.” Africana Studies Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 27, 2022

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“A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line Webinar.” East Texas Historical Association, September 20, 2022

 

“Reconstructing Reparations, Religion, and Passing in Pactolus Prime.” “Tourgée’s Literary Reconstructions Roundtable.” C19 Conference, Coral Gables, FL, March 31-April 2, 2022

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“Enslavement Love, Trail of Tears Love: Story Keeping in Shonda Buchanan’s Black Indian.” “Roundtable: Breaking Generational Curses: Memory, Identity and Familial Belonging,” 53rd Annual NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 24-29, 2022

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“Why Study Overshadowed (1901) in 2022?” “Why Black Baptist Minister, Novelist, Publisher, Orator, and Educator Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) Matters Now Roundtable.” MLA Conference, Washington, D.C., January 6-9, 2022

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“Intersectionality: A Framework to See and Address Inequity,” Diversity Dialogues Series, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, November 16, 2021

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“Out West: Afro-Indigeneity and the Freedom of Being.” 6th Annual African American Intellectual Historical Society Virtual Conference, Princeton, NJ, March 19-20, 2021

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“”The Negro Speaks of Rivers” at 100: A Roundtable.” Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, ON, January 7-10, 2021

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“Double Consciousness: How Racial Oppression Impacts the Souls of Black Folks.” Mosaic Theater Company, Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019

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"Across Time, Place, and Practice: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Translator of Vernacular Racisms." “New Perspectives on Paul Laurence Dunbar,” American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 24 – 27, 2016

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"Consent and Silence: Vocal and Bodily Silence in Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince, Nancy Morejón’s “I Love My Master, and Évelyne Trouillot’s The Infamous Rosalie." Consent in Early America, 1600-1900, Oxford, UK, March 9 – 10, 2015

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“'And this program has been brought to you by your local white supremacists!': Redefining Reconciliation in Civil War Era Popular Entertainment." Music of the South Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, April 3 – 4, 2013

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SELECTED CONFERENCE AND LECTURE ORGANIZATION

“‘The End’ in Historical Fiction of and About the Nineteenth Century.” C19 Conference, Pasadena, CA, March 14-16, 2024

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“Black-Indigenous Early America.” Society of Early Americanists 13th Biennial Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, June 8-11, 2023

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“A Sharecropper's Dream: The Legacy of Black Farmers and Black Land Ownership.” Black Ecologies Week, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 7, 2022

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“Imagined Blackness in Imagined Communities.” College Language Association Convention, Memphis, TN, April 1 – 4, 2020 

 

Humanities Beyond the Academy Symposium, College Park, MD, February 28, 2019

 

“Racial Passing and Colorism in African-/American Literatures.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Austin, TX, February 15 – 18, 2018

 

“Secondhand Southerners.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Boston, MA, March 10 – 12, 2016