Journal Articles
“Community and Naming: Lived Narratives of Early African American Women’s Spirituality.” Religions 11(8), 426 (August 2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11080426
“COVID-19 and Black Grief in the Academy.” CLAJ (Rapid Response Special Issue). Eds. Dana Williams and Kendra Parker. 63.2 (September 2020): 148 - 151.
Co-Author. “Transnational Black Politics and Resistance from Enslavement to Obama Through the Prism of 1619” in JTAS Special Forum Introduction. 10.1 (2019). https://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas/10/1
“Whiteness in African American Antebellum Literature: An Enduring Imprint in the Lived and Literary Imagination.” 84.1 (Spring 2019) South Atlantic Review
"American Studies and the Racial Fault Line," Forum Response to Sebastian Weier's "Consider Afro-Pessimism." Amerikastudien 59.3 (2014): 439 - 442.
“Maps, Mythologies and Identities: Zombies and Contra-Anglo Spirituality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Angie Cruz’s Soledad.” PALARA (Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association) 17 (Fall 2013): 1 -12.
“The Enigmatic “Clear Black” in William Wells Brown’s Clotel,” CLAJ 56.2 (December 2012): 170 - 183.
“From David Walker to President Obama: Tropes of the Founding Fathers in African American Discourses of Democracy, or the Legacy of Ishmael.” 56 (2012) American Studies Journal (Center for American Studies, Harle-Wittenberg, Germany). http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de:8001/workplace/235.html.
“Memory, Ancestors, and Activism/Resistance in Charles Chesnutt’s Uncle Julius.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 43.2 (Fall 2010): 31- 45.
“Conflicting Epistemological Selves in the Narratives of Frederick Douglass.” CLAJ 52.1 (September 2008): 13-37.
“Maps, Mythologies and Identities: Zombies and Contra-Anglo Spirituality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Angie Cruz’s Soledad.” Black Magnolias Literary Journal 3.1 (March-May 2009): 5-19.
“Of Providence and Rhetoric: The Failure of Alexander Crummell’s Anglo-African Nationalism.” Slavery and Colonialism in the Atlantic World Spec. issue of Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 5.3 (2004).
“In the Beginning There Was Death: Spiritual Desolation and the Search for Self in Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography of My Mother.” South Central Review 20 (Summer-Winter 2003), 2-23.
“Black Female Protagonists and the Abstruse Racialized Self in Antebellum African American Fiction.” Womanist Theory and Research 3.2/4.1 (2001/20002): 50-56.
"Reworking the Conversion Narrative: Race and Christianity in Our Nig." MELUS 24 (Summer 1999), 3-27.