Reynolds Research Leave, Wake Forest University, 2024-25
Humanities Institute Summer Writing Grant, Wake Forest University, 2018
American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow, 2013-15
Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-15
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 2012-13
Selected Publications
Monograph: ‘See Justice Done’: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition (University Press of Mississippi, 2024).
“Review: A History of the African American Novel and African American Writing: A Literary Approach.” American Literature 92 (2): 376–379 (2020).
“‘Our racket’s within th’ law, ain’t it?’: Miscegenation and Literary Form in the Plessy Era.” Critical Analysis of Law 5:2 (2018).
“Was Blind But Now I See”: Post-Racial Justice in Edward P. Jones’ The Known World,” in Passing While Post-Racial: Performance and Identity Construction in Neo-Passing Narratives. Eds. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Young (forthcoming 2017 with University of Illinois Press).
“Slavery and the Slave Narrative.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (2016).
“‘Every Tone Was a Testimony’: Black Music, Literature, and Law.” Law, Culture and the Humanities. (2013).
“Sedition Prose: Patriots and Traitors in the African American Literary Tradition.” Law and Literature 24.2 (2012).
Courses at Wake Forest
FYS 100: Law and Culture
ENG 175: Law and American Literature
ENG 301: Toni Morrison
ENG 302: 21st Century African American Literature
ENG 302: Law and Culture
ENG 381/681: Madness in African American Literature
ENG 387/687: 21st Century African American Literature
ENG 387: Black to the Future
ENG 387/687: Slavery and the Archive
ENG 781: Incommensurability and African American Literature
