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
ENG 781: 21st Century African American Literature
Awards
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 Works
Selected Books
Monograph: ‘See Justice Done’: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition (University Press of Mississippi, 2024).
Selected Publications
“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).
“Passing for Post-Racial: Colorblind Reading Practices of Zombies, Sheriffs, and Slaveholders” in Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow. Eds. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Young (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2018).
“Slavery and the Slave Narrative.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (2016, DOI: 10.1111/b.9781444334982.2016.x).
“‘Every Tone Was a Testimony’: Black Music, Literature, and Law.” Law, Culture and the Humanities. (October 8, 2013, DOI: 10.1177/1743872113504189).
“Seditious Prose: Patriots and Traitors in the African American Literary Tradition.” Law and Literature 24.2 (Summer 2012), pp. 174-212.
