Courses
Major Black Writers (264), James Baldwin (336), Politics and Public Spheres in African-American Writing (483G)
Areas of Specialty:
- African American literature: politics, temporality, migration
- American literature and the color line
- Autobiography, memoir, and life-writing: U.S. and African Diaspora
- Interdisciplinary study of time
- Race, gender and causality
Selected Publications:
- "Following Her Act: Sequence and Desire in Gayl Jones’s The Healing," forthcoming in African American Review
- Book Review: Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement by Carol Polsgrove, Labour/Le Travail Spring 2003
Current Projects
- "Chancy Masters and Timely Chattels: The Slave Trade in William Wells Brown’s Clotel"
- Book manuscript, Words For the Hour: Temporality and Agency in African American Literature
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