2023– present        Inductee Selection Committee, North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame

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2023– present          Undergraduate Council and Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

2021 – 2023             Frederick Douglass Day Committee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

2022 – 2024             Podcast Subcommittee, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 

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2021 – 2022             Black Ecologies Week Committee, UT Humanities Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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2020 – 2022             Vice President and Program Committee Chair, Langston Hughes Society

 

2020 – 2022             Membership Committee, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

 

2019 – 2022             Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association

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2017 – 2020             Dean’s Cabinet, College of Arts & Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park 

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2014 – 2020             Black Graduate Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park, (Vice President, 2014-2016)

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Studies Association

 

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

 

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

 

College English Association

 

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies                                                                                

 

Langston Hughes Society (Life Member)

 

MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

 

Modern Language Association

 

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

       

Society of Early Americanists 

 

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing