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Expertise
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Work
Work
Cultural Vertigo: Spiritual Roads to Social Justice in African Diaspora Film and Literature (manuscript under submission)
"Placing Toni Morrison's 'Love': African American and Women of Color Feminists Theorizing Embodiment, Home, and Memory," International Journal of the Humanities, Common Ground Publishers, Victoria, Australia 2007
"1+1=3 and Other Dilemmas: Reading Vertigo in Invisible Man, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Song of Solomon," African American Review, vol. 37, n. 1, Spring 2003
"Keys to the Ancestors' Chambers: An Approach to Teaching Beloved," Reading Between the Black and White Keys: Deep Crossings in African Diaspora Studies (V.A. Clark, ed., UC Berkeley, 1994)
Poetry: "Each Other's Eshu," African American Review, Vol. 37, #4, Winter 2003
"Buffalo Gals/Elephant Women," "Outdoors," "Balance," "Ancestry," in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, XIV (University Press of Colorado, 1994)
"If You Only," "Temporary Insanity," "Shout This Poem," "Genderella," in The Drumming Between Us (PJH, 1999)
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
É«ÖÐÉ«, Wig Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013
Irvine Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award, 2004-2005
Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, 2002-2003
University of Cape Town (Rondebosch, South Africa), Visiting Associate, Centre for African Studies, 2002
Chicago Black Film Festival Featured Selection, 1998; and National Black Filmmakers' Programming Consortium, Best Short Feature, Chicago, 1988