keywords Racial Passing, Black Girlhood, Literature for Children, African American Literature, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Harlem Renaissance, Neew Negro Renaissance, Hip Hop Studies, Popular Culture
selected publications book That Middle World Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing 2020 journal article Fraternal Fractures: Marriage, Masculinity, and Malicious Menfolk in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" and "Magnolia Flower". Womens Studies: an interdisciplinary journal|1699 Other Studies in Human Society. 48-60. 2021 Between the Students and Me: Experiencing Political Literature in the Classroom. South Atlantic Review. 170-189. 2018
education and training Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst 2015 M.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst 2012 M.A., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical St Univ 2010 B.A., Bennett College 2008