I teach, research, and write about African American Literature from its beginnings to the present.
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Co-author, "Black Women's Food Work as Critical Space." Gastronomica 15.4 (Winter 2015): 34-49.
"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.
This chapter argues that Ntozake Shange's formally experimental 1998 cookbook, If I Can Cook / You Know God Can uses foodways—ways of preparing food and routes that foodstuffs travel—to theorize and prescribe practices of diaspora for Black people in the United States.
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