19th/Early 20th Century African-American and American Periodicals
American Political Satire
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 381 “Black Like Me”: Reform, Representation, and the Black Public Sphere during the Black Cultural/Literary Renaissances between 1900-1950
ENG 389 The Authenticating Black “I”: Studies in Black Autobiography from Slavery to Freedom
ENG 387 Slavery in the Twentieth Century Black Imagination
ENG 302 “Race” Fictions: Image and Inversions in American Literature
ENG 150 Dreaming America: Expression, Identity, and the Literary Imagination
ENG 175 Whose History; Whose Hero? The “Heroic Ideal” in American Literature
WRI 111 Personal as Political in African American Literature
WRI 111 What’s So Funny?: Humor, Race, and Nation in American Political Humor
Selected Publications
“Teaching Harriet Jacobs and the Archives,” America in the 19th Century, The Official Podcast Series of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Fall 2021.
“Visionary History: Recovering William J. Wilson’s “Afric-American Picture Gallery” (co-authored) Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print.Edited by Bridgette Fielder, John Senchyne.University of Madison-Wisconsin Press American Print Culture Series. 2019.
“Discovering the Woman in the Text: Early African American Print, Gender Studies, and the Twenty-First-Century Classroom” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 33(1) 2016.
“Poetic Steps: Fusing African American Poetry and Choreography in Classroom Practice,” (co-authored) Journal of Dance Education. June 2011.
“Woodruff Library’s African American Studies Collection At a Glance” Loose Canons, November 2002.
“Bauerlein Studies 1906 Atlanta Race Riots: An Interview,” Loose Canons, July 2001
