I teach, research, and write about African American Literature from its beginnings to the present.

"Foodways in Contemporary African American Poetry: Harryette Mullen and Evie Shockley." Contemporary Literature. 57.2 (Summer 2016): 184-215.

Co-author, "Black Women's Food Work as Critical Space." Gastronomica 15.4 (Winter 2015): 34-49.

"Gwendolyn Brooks's Black Aesthetic of the Domestic," MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 40.1 (2015): 149-76.

"James Baldwin and Black Women's Fiction." African American Review 46.4. (2013): 615-31.

Women's Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels (Virginia 2013).

“Dancing Up A Nation: Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow.” Callaloo 30.2 (Summer 2007): 644-52.

Tanisha Ford talk "Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul," April 2016.

"Hands Up & Breathe: A Conversation About Racial Justice and Hip Hop Culture with Jeff Chang and James Peterson," March 2015. Listen to the conversation and watch the UO Today interview with James Peterson.

Screening of documentary Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights and discussion with filmmaker Nevline Nnaji, April 2014.

"Racial Representations: African American Literature Since 1975" symposium, April 2013.

"Place and Displacement in African American Literature" symposium, March 2012.

Mat Johnson reading and interview, May 2011.