Books

Oxford Handbook of African American Humor (co-editor with Danielle Fuentes Morgan) (under contract) 

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Disciplining Black Literary Study” American Literary History (forthcoming)

"The Professional is Political: On Citational Practice and the Persistent Problem of Academic Plunder." Journal of Feminist Scholarship 16 (Fall 2019): 74-77. 

"On Witnessing: James Baldwin’s Southern Experience and the Quareness of Black Sociality." South: a scholarly journal, vol. 51 no. 1, 2018, p. 115-134. 

Chapters in Edited Collections and Handbooks

“Money Talks, History Balks: Teaching Apex Hides the Hurt,” Approaches to Teaching Colson Whitehead (forthcoming)

“Eddie Murphy’s Last Laugh,” in William Costanzo and Peter Kunze (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy (forthcoming)

“African American Humor.” In Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies. Ed. Gene Jarrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. (solicited) 

Public Scholarship 

Editor. John Keene a special issue of Post45: Contemporaries. (October 2023)

                        - “Sui Generis: On the Genius of John Keene.” (Introduction)

                        - “A Leap into the Void: A Conversation with John Keene”

“Shifting Sands: Re-Reading Ali Smith’s Autumn” in Debra Rae Cohen and Cara L. Lewis (eds.), Ali Smith Now, Post45: Contemporaries. (May 2022) (solicited)

“The Fugitive Strain: Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist and The Joke of Race” Danielle Fuentes Morgan (ed.), African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century, Post45: Contemporaries. (June 2021) (solicited) 

Reference Essays

“Black Bourgeoisie” in Omari L. Dyson, Judson L. Jeffries, and Kevin L. Brooks (ed.s), African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs (ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020).

“Spike Lee” in Omari L. Dyson, Judson L. Jeffries, and Kevin L. Brooks (ed.s), African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs (ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020).

Creative Nonfiction

“A Letter to Myself” in gloria j. Wilson, Joni B. Acuff, and Amelia M. Kraehe (eds.), A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2022).

“Nascent Leanings,” Auburn Avenue. Gender Issue edited by Dr. Bettina Judd. Fall 2020. 

Book Reviews

Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture, by Badia Ahad-Legardy. African American Review, vol. 56, no 3., 2023 p.17-20.

Freedom in Laughter: Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement by Malcolm Frierson, and Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan. African American Review, vol. no. 2-3, 2022 p. 261-264.

Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States, by Katelyn Hale Wood. Modern Drama, vol. 65, no.2, 2022 p. 264-266. 

Review of From Blackface to Black Twitter: Reflections on Black Humor, Race, Politics, and Gender, by Jannette L. Dates and Mia Moody Ramirez. Studies in American Humor, vol. 7 no. 2, 2021, p. 405-408.

“Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement. Carmen L. Phelps. (Review)” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 40, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 218–20.