“Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement.” Black Perspectives [online], December 22, 2022, AAIHS, https://www.aaihs.org/billie-holiday-and-the-black-arts-movement.  

“Transnational Aesthetics in “Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro.” Siècles [online], no. 51, 2021, http://journals.openedition.org/siecles/8957  

“A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir.” Polish Journal for American Studies Special Issue: Digital Humanities in American Studies, edited by Michal Choiński, vol. 14 (Autumn 2020), pp. 225-242.  

“The Cotton-Gin Effect: An Afrofuturist Reading of Star Trek: Discovery.” Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery, edited by Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareika Spychala, Liverpool University Press, June 2020.  

“Oops Upside Yr Head: Black Speculative Fiction, Authenticity & the Political Metaphysics of Stick Fighting in Olufemi Terry's ‘Stickfighting Days.’” Callaloo, vol. 41, no. 3, summer 2018, pp. 145-156.

“Bleeding Past the Margin: A Review of Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge.” GC Advocate, October 2013.

Conference Papers and Presentations:

“The Image Remains: Ezra Pound's Des Imagistes in the 21st Century," 30th Ezra Pound International Conference: Ezra Pound and the Legacy of The Cantos, June 27-30, 2023.

“Black Beats: The Afro-Gothic Origins of the Beat Movement"American Literature Association: 34th Annual Conference on American Literature, May 25-27, 2023.

“Wheel Whirling in the Middle of a Wheel: A Reading from Harlem Mosaics by Whit Frazier.” Annual Zora Neale Hurston Virtual Conference: Woman on Fire, The College of Arts and Humanities, Bethune-Cookman University, February 16-17, 2023.

“From Harlem to Bronzeville: Deprovincializing Black Literary Movements.” The 33rd Annual American Literature Association Conference, American Literature Association (ALA), Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, May 26-28. 2022.

“The Fire Next Time: Fire!! Magazine: A Hundred Years Later.” 41st Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies. Portuguese Association of American Studies, May 20-21, 2021.

“The Anthology as Meta-Syllabus: Combining German and Anglophone Approaches to Canon Studies,” Guest Lecture Presentation, University of Washington, Department of Germanistics, February 19, 2021.

“Transnational Aesthetics in ‘Harlem Mecca’” Transnational Periodical Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. University of Mainz, Germany, January 29-31, 2020.

“Black Speculative Literature as Collective Aesthetic Revolution.” The 2019 American Studies Association Annual Meeting. American Studies Association (ASA), Hawai‘i Convention Center, Honolulu HI, November 7-10, 2019.

“The Afrofuturist Historical Novel.” The 30th Annual American Literature Association Conference, American Literature Association (ALA), Westin Copley Hotel, Boston, MA, May 23-26, 2019.

“The Panther and the Lash: Black Literary Movement Publications and the Black Aesthetic,” Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black, African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Conference, University of Maryland, October 18-20, 2018. Digital Poster Presentation.

“The Black Arts Movement and the Esoteric Afrofuturism of Sun Ra,” American Cultures of Dissent, American Studies Leipzig Grad Conference 2018, University of Leipzig, April 28-29, 2018.


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