• “Personal and Literary Migrations: Richard Wright’s Northern and Southern Conflict”
College Language Association Conference, April 1997
SENIOR THESES DIRECTED (selected)
- Ashley DeFlanders, “Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen: Examining the Themes of Racial Pride, Africa, and Religion”
Tougaloo College, 2004
- Lakeysha Hallmon, “Coming of Age in the Jim Crow South: Reflections on Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks of the Road and Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi” Tougaloo College, 2014
- Derrick Spires, “That Nigga’s Crazy: Madness, Masking, and Truth on the Stage in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man”
Tougaloo College, 2004
- Marcus Mason, “The Myth of the Dream: The Reality of Martin Luther King Jr.” Tougaloo College, 2005
- Terrance Youngblood, “The Three Faces of Black Poetry: What is the Spoken Word Movement?”
Tougaloo College, 2005
- Brandi K. Hersey, “African American Theater: A Living Political Statement” Tougaloo College, 2006
- Gregory Johnson, “Saving Our Sons’: Black Boys in the Writings of John Edgar Wideman”
Tougaloo College 2008
Julius B. Fleming, Jr. “Beauty, Perfect as Dusk’: Sexuality as an Agent of Liberation in Jean Toomer’s Cane”
Tougaloo College, 2009
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