Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Africa Claiming Her Own”: Unveiling Natural Hair and African Diasporic Identity in Lorraine Hansberry’s Unabridged A Raisin in the Sun. Modern Drama, vol. 64, no. 3, Fall 2021, pp. 283-308. doi: 10.3138/md-64-3-1120

“In de Affica Soil”: Slavery, Ethnography, and Recovery in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the “Last Black Cargo.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 75-104. doi: 10.1093/melus/mlab003

“Subtle Resistance: On Sugar and the Mammy Figure in Kara Walker’s A Subtlety and Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose.” African American Review, vol. 52, no. 2, Summer 2019, pp. 143-164. doi: 10.1353/afa.2019.0025 (Awarded 2019 Weixlmann Prize for Best Essay on 20th- and 21st-century Literature)

“White Skin, Black Slavery: Bernardo Guimarães’s A Escrava Isaura and the Global Telenovela.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, vol. 35, 2017, pp. 138-159. doi: 10.7560/SLAPC3508 

Book Reviews

Invited review essay of Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States by Toyin Falola. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. American Literary History Online Review, Series XLIV. American Literary History, vol. 36, no. 4, Winter 2024, pp. 1272-1275. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajae110

Review of Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance by Jeffrey B. Ferguson. Edited by Werner Sollors, Rutgers University Press, 2021. European Journal of American Studies (Online), Reviews 2022-2, 5 July 2022. http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/17977

Invited review essay of Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler by William Merrill Decker. Northwestern University Press, 2020. American Literary History Online Review, Series XXX. American Literary History, vol. 34, no. 3, Fall 2022, pp. 1113-1116. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac085

Invited review essay of Staging Black Fugitivity by Stacie Selmon McCormick. The Ohio State University Press, 2019. Modern Drama, vol. 64, no. 2, Summer 2021, pp. 245-247. doi: 10.3138/md.64.2.br04

Invited review essay of Sorcery in the Black Atlantic, Edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi. The University of Chicago Press, 2011, and Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World, Edited by Mamadou Diouf Kiddoe Nwankwo. The University of Michigan Press, 2010. “Sorcery and Rhythms in the Black Atlantic.” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 4, no. 3, September 2017, pp. 457-460.

Review of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature by Yogita Goyal. Callaloo, vol. 36, no. 2, Winter 2013, pp. 466-469.

Book Chapters

“‘Working the Past’: Memory, Language, and Echoes of Slavery in Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa.” Critical Dimensions of African Studies: Re-Membering Africa. Edited by Jennifer L. De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters. Lexington Books, 2023, pp. 119-148.

“Slavery and the Cultural Turn.” Writing the History of Slavery. Edited by David Stefan Doddington and Enrico Dal Lago, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. 399-416.

“‘Uninhabitable Moments’: The Symbol of Serena Williams, Rage, and Rackets in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric.” Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood: Media, Literature and Theory. Edited by Marquita Gammage and Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers, Anthem Press, 2019, pp. 27-52.

“Revisiting Modes of Literacy and African American Language in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Sapphire’s PUSH.” Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel: Reinterpreting Canonical Literature. Edited by Crag Hill and Victor Malo-Juvera, Routledge, 2018, pp. 196-216.

 “‘We Know People by their Stories’: Madness, Babies, and Dolls in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!” Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance. Edited by Caroline A. Brown and Johanna X. K. Garvey, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 163-197.

Reference Works (Peer-Reviewed)

“Literary Representations of Slavery.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. July 19, 2023. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.926

“Neo-Slave Narratives.” Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory. Edited by Eugene O’Brien. Oxford University Press, 2017. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780190221911-0017

“To Kill A Mockingbird.” “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” “Middle Passage.” “Roots.” Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, edited by Carlos Eliseo Cortés, SAGE, 2013.