PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Provost/AVP of Academic Affairs Tougaloo College July 2012 - Present

Assistant Professor Assistant Assistant Assistant Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville August 2010-July 2012 Taught various courses in American and African American literary studies - Movements in African American Literature; Intro to African American Texts; Black Speculative Fiction; Toni Morrison; Studies in Fiction

Associate Professor/Chair of English with tenure

Tougaloo College Awarded May 2009 Taught various courses in American, African American, and ethnic literary Studies - Composition, including honors; Research Methods in English; Richard Wright; History of the African American Theatre; Black Popular Fiction; Black Speculative Fiction; and The Politics of Black Comedy

Director, Honors Program Tougaloo College

August 1, 2005-2010

EDUCATION

Doctorate of Philosophy, English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill August 2004 Dissertation: The Literate Pimp: Reclaiming and Revisioning the Pimp-Authored Text Director: Dr. Trudier Harris.

Master of Arts, English

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill May 1999 Thesis: From Heroin to Holloway and Back Again: Donald Goines and the Black Experience Novel. Advisor: Dr. Trudier Harris

Bachelor of Arts, English - Summa cum laude

Tougaloo College May 1997

Tougaloo College Senior Project: The Southern Tradition: Race in the Works of William Faulkner and Richard Wright. Advisor: Dr. Jerry W. Ward

Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship 2007-2008

UNCF/Mellon Faculty Doctoral Fellowship 2003-2004

Edgar and Inez Smith Teaching and Research Award, Tougaloo College April 2007

Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year 2006-2007

President's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Tougaloo College May 2006