PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS and SERVICE College Language Association Modern Language Association South Atlantic Modern Language Association Board Member, Mississippi Humanities Council - 2008-2012 Dissertation Committee Member: W. Miranda Freeman University of Southern Mississippi, 2010 UNCF/Mellon Mays Campus Program Coordinator Tougaloo College - 2004-2010

Areas of research specialization include African American literature, southern literature, and popular culture. Teaching interests in addition to research specialization include film studies and African American theater.

Merit Assistantship, SITES Assisted with the creation of an electronic bibliography of College, Composition, Communication Dr. Todd Taylor, Supervisor.

The Mellon Faculty Seminars in Ghana “Towards Intra-Racial and Interracial Understanding: African Voices on the Atlantic Slave Trade.” July 5-July 19, 2007

"From Writer to Reader: Popular Black Fiction." Cambridge History of African American Literature Book chapter Eds - Jerry W. Ward and Maryemma Graham Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 2011

Paradox of Empowerment: Colonialism, Community, and Criminality in Donald Goines's Kenyatta Series." Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines Eds - L. H. Stallings and Greg Thomas New York, Black Classic Press, 2011 Book chapter

Book chapter

“Askin' ain't gettin’: Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, and the Re-Making of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.” Black Magnolias: A Literary Journal Ed - C. Leigh McInnis, Fall 2009, Vol. 3.3 Article

“Tougaloo College, Richard Wright, and Me: Teaching Wright Millennial Student” Papers on Language and Literature Ed - Howard Rambsy Winter 2008 Article

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