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Selected Publications

• The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature. UP of Mississippi, 2024.
• “Creative Disruptions: Protest Art and Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Summer Prince.” Teaching Black American Speculative Fiction: Equity, Justice, and Antiracism, edited by KaaVonia Hinton and Karen Chandler. Routledge, 2024, pp. 57-66.
• “Confronting Failure and Facilitating Transfer: Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Literary Studies with a UbD Framework.” Confronting Failure: Approaches to Building Confidence and Resilience in Undergraduate Researchers, edited by Lisa Corwin, Lou Charkoudian, & Jen Heemstra, The Council on Undergraduate Research, 2022.
• “Aesthetic Resistance: Racist Visual Tropes and the Oppositional Gaze in Joel Christian Gill’s Tales of the Talented Tenth.” African American Review, vol. 53, no. 3, Fall 2020, pp. 181-200.
• “The Narrative Dynamics of a Counter-Surveillant Child Gaze in Langston Hughes’s ‘Red-Headed Baby.’” Studies in the American Short Story, vol. 1, no. 1, 2020, pp. 86-94.
• “Reading in the Writing Center: Tutor Education and Praxis.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 2020, pp. 7-19. First author, with Gissel Campos, Sarah Gerrish, Mary Joerg, and Renee Lavoie. .
• “Remodeling Home in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials.” The Lion and the Unicorn, volume 42, number 1, January 2018, pp. 20-36.
• New York African Free Schools and their Convention Legacy, exhibit in the Colored Conventions Project at ColoredConventions.org. Co-curator. Author credit on the following pages: “A New Model of Education,” “Margaret Odle” (with Daniel J. Pfeiffer), “Education at the Conventions” (with Alyssa Amaral), and “1853 Convention: Case Study.” .
• “Jesse Jackson’s Call Me Charley: Protesting Segregated Recreation in Cold War America.” Children’s Literature, vol. 45, 2017, pp. 92-113.
• “Jessie Willcox Smith’s Critique of Teleological Girlhood in The Seven Ages of Childhood: ‘Sans Everything.’” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, vol. 9, no. 1, 2017, pp. 102-128.
• “Rhetorical Reading Guides, Readerly Experiences, and WID in the Writing Center.” Reading in the Writing Center, special issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, vol. 41, no. 7-8, March/April 2017, pp. 9-16.
• “The Problem with Mrs. Coulter: Vetting the Female Villain-Hero in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials.” A Quest of Her Own: The Female Hero in Modern Fantasy, edited by Lori Campbell, McFarland, 2014, pp. 225-247.
• “‘The Language of Pictures’: Modes of Visual Representation and Spectatorship in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials.” “The Young Adult Novel,” special issue of Studies in the Novel, vol. 42, no. 1/2, 2010, pp. 99-120.

For a full list of publications, conference presentations, and other information, please see the Curriculum Vitae linked above.