Areas of Specialty:
- African American Literature: Slave Narratives, Spiritual Narratives
- Early American Literature: Faith and Literature
- Non-Fiction: American Autobiography
- Women's Literature & Gender Studies
- The Black Church Tradition
Selected Publications:
- Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity & the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative. University of Florida Press, 2005.
- "Her Refusal to be Re(Caste): Annie Burton's Narrative of Resistance," in The Southern Literary Journal, 37 (Spring 2004).
- "The Soul in DuBois' Black Folks," in The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, 6:2 (Spring 2003).
- "Behold! Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: African-American Women's Spiritual Narratives" in The Cambridge Companion to 19th Century Women's Literature, eds. Dale Bauer & Philip Gould (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
- "Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave: Some New Thoughts on an Old Form" in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 14:4 (Fall 2001).
Current Projects:
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