BA, Columbia University
MA, PhD, Boston University
Research and Teaching Interests:
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; African American literature; multiethnic literatures and histories from all periods; comparative ethnic literatures; Native American literature; race and ethnicity studies.
Publications:
鈥淔reedom Fighters: Cuff Ashport and Toby Talbot,鈥 with Jamie Huff, 91视频 Magazine, Fall 2023.
鈥淧hillis Wheatley, White Victimhood, and Black Belonging in the Age of The 1776 Report,鈥 Early American Literature, vol. 57, no. 3, 2022, pp. 701鈥726.
鈥,鈥 editorial feature, with Jamie Huff. Google Arts & Culture site. October, 2019.
鈥淏eing Taught by Phillis Wheatley during the Kavanaugh Hearings,鈥 The Bridgewater Review 38.1 (2019): 5鈥9.
"The Souls of Henry Adams: Du Boisian Aspects of The Education." Arizona Quarterly 67.3 (2011): 61-90.
"'Excepting Himself': Olaudah Equiano, Native Americans, and the Civilizing Mission." MELUS: Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 34.4 (2009): 15-38.
"How Dangerous Can a Book Be? Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Great Books for High School Kids: A Teachers' Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' Lives. Ed. Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. 38-60.
Awards:
Dr. Robert A. Daniel Award for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice 2020