Teaching Interests: Contemporary African-American literature and African-American literature, American Drama, Twentieth Century American literature, Popular culture

Selected Publications:

"American Negroes Revisited: The  Intellectual and The Badman in Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones Novels"  (from a forthcoming collection of essays on the work of Walter Mosley, 2008).

"Teaching Race to Students Who Think the World is Free: Aging and Race as Social Change." Pedagogy:Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Winter 2006.