Research and Teaching Interests: African American literature; queer literature and history; postplantation studies; queer of color theory
Recent Publications:
“’Anyone can Fly’: The Flying African Myth and the Afterlives of Slavery in Children’s Literature.” College Literature, forthcoming.
“Athletics, Accommodation, and the Labor Question in Ellison’s ‘Afternoon.’” Journal of Modern Literature, forthcoming, Spring 2025.
“The Mis-Education of Buster and Riley: Flight and Transgenerational Conflict in Ralph Ellison’s Short Fiction.” African American Review 54.3, Fall 2021, pp. 185-198.