ARTICLES 

 “’That we are to bless others’: Sutton E. Griggs on the Offerings of Black Introspection.” Callaloo, vol. 44, no. 2, 2026, 216-227. 

​

“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, DOI: 10.1353/pal.2023.a906873.

​

“’After Morrison’ Approaches to Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy.” Forum: “After Morrison,” Women’s Studies, 2023, DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2023.2170376.

​

“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

“‘Tootie is my favorite’: Interrogating the Responsibility for Antiracist Teaching in The Golden Girls and The Golden Palace.” Down the Road and Back Again: Critical Approaches to The Golden Girls, Eds. Jill Anderson and Alissa Burger, Routledge, 2025, 11-21. 

​

“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. 

​

“’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 From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell. African American Review. vol. 56, no. 4, Winter 2023, 410-414.

​

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.

​

“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.

​

WEB PUBLICATION

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

​

SELECTED PUBLIC TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“John Marrant and the Co-Existence of Many Nations Under God.” Early American Literatures for 2026: Teaching, Thinking Thriving—A Society of Early American Literatures Virtual Symposium, November 14, 2025.

​

“Simple on Black/Indigenous Solidarities.” Consuela Francis Emerging Scholar Lecture, African American Studies Program, College of Charleston, September 24, 2024.

​

“Black-Indigenous Stories//Black-Indigenous Futures.” The Black Studies Project and Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego, March 11-13, 2024

​

“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

​

“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

​

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

​

“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

​

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

​

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

​

SELECTED CONFERENCE AND LECTURE ORGANIZATION

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

​

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

​

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

 

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