Peer-reviewed (Selective)Guest Lectures and Professional Presentations
Peer-reviewed (Selective)
"Urban Texts in 'Other' Teaching Spaces: Teaching Black Male Texts to White Feminists." College Language Association Conference. Brooklyn, NY. April 2010.
"Voodoo Feminism in Jewell Parker Rhodes' Voodoo Dreams." National Council of Black Studies Conference. New Orleans, LA. March 2010.
"Langston Hughes: The Father of a World Black Consciousness Movement." Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA. December 30, 2009.
"A Black Man's Liberation: Barack Obama's Dreams for My Father as a Healing Text" College Language Association. Cambridge, MD, March 2009.
"Teaching Confessions of a Video Vixen to Today's Black Women." College Language Association Conference. Miami, FL. April 2007.
"Fathering Africaness in Langston Hughes." Langston Hughes Society Panel. Modern Language Association Convention. Washington, DC. December 2005.
"Fathering Blackness in Langston Hughes and Malcolm X." College Language Association Conference. University of Georgia. Athens, GA. April 2005.
"Richard Wright's Short Story and Sarah's Song." MELUS Conference. San Antonio, TX. March 2004.
Invited Presentations
"Calling All Daddies!: Black Fathers in Black Communities." Fifth Annual Fall Family Counseling Conference. Keynote address. North Carolina A&T University. November 18, 2010.
"In Search of Black Leadership: Barack Obama's Dreams." Africana Studies Conference. UNC-Charlotte. April 21, 2010.
"Remembering Claudette Graves Burroughs-White." "WC at the Lunch Counter," forum on Woman's College students' participation in the Greensboro Sit-in Movement. Sponsored by AFS, Women's and Gender Studies, and History. January 27, 2010.
"Walking on Water: Significance of Water in Africana Women's Literature." Department of English. Arizona State University. November 2007.
"Remembering the Black Panther Party." Pine Ridge Village Residential Hall at NAU. February 28, 2005.
"Women and the Arts During the Harlem Renaissance." Black Student Union for NAU Black Heritage Week. February 23, 2005.
Community Presentations
"Where in the World is President Obama?" Multicultural Day. Allen Elementary. High Point, NC. March 28, 2011.
Led discussion of Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father based on perspective of A Fatherless Child. Greensboro Public Library. Saturday, November 14, 2009.
Book Talk, A Fatherless Child. Barnes and Noble. September 17, 2009. Greensboro, NC.
Book Talk, A Fatherless Child. Dillard University. March 10, 2009.
Book Talk, From the Plantation to the Prison. Murdoch Community Center. Flagstaff, AZ. March, 2008.