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Assistant Professor of English |
M.A. in English, Texas A&M University Ph.D. in English, University of Buffalo-SUNY |
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Areas of research and teaching: African-American literature, 19th century American literature, American intellectual history Selected publications: " 'It Is Good to Be Shifty': William Wells Brown’s Trickster Critique of Black Autobiography." Modern Language Studies 38.2 (Winter 2009): 28-45. |
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Selected conference presentations: "Pragmatic Nationalism in James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," MLA Convention, Seattle, WA, January, 2012. "Emigration, Nationalism, and Pragmatism in the Works of Sutton Griggs,” RMMLA Convention, Albuquerque, NM, October 2010. "Transcending Emerson: Social Morality in Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Letters From New-York,’” NEMLA Convention, Boston, MA, February 2009. "‘Becoming Autobiography’?: Black Experience and the Discourse of Reform in Douglass and Brown," NEMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 2007. |
