Publications

Books:

A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009.
Winner: National Council for Black Studies Anna Julia Cooper and CLR James Award for Outstanding Publication in Africana Studies

Editor, From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement Literature. Macon: Mercer UP, April 2008.

Book Chapters:

"When the Women Tell Stories": Healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory."

African American Fiction Since 1970: Critical New Essays. Editor, Dana A. Williams. Columbus: Ohio State UP: 2009.

"Where Do We Go From Here? The Literature of African Peoples and African Studies." African Studies for the 21st Century. Editor, Jacob U. Gordon. New York: Nova Science: 2004. pp. 71-82.

"Speaking of Voice and August Wilson's Women." August Wilson and Black Aesthetics. Eds. Dana Williams and Sandra Shannon. New York: Palgrave, 2004. pp. 145-157.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

"Voodoo Feminism through the Lens of Jewell Parker Rhodes's Voodoo Dreams."(Forthcoming: Women's Studies Journal, 2012)

"Sexed-Up and Dumbed-Down: Black Southern Men in James McBride's Miracle at St. Anna." (Forthcoming: Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, Summer 2011)

"Meeting Richard Wright in the Mountains: Reflections on Teaching at Northern Arizona University." Papers on Language and Literature. 44.4 (2008): 382-387. (invited)

"The Virgin Mary, Eve, and Mary Magdalene in Richard Wright's Novels." CLA Journal. (December 2002): 168-193.

"Mother Dear: The Motivations of Tina McElroy Ansa's Mudear." The Griot: Official Journal for the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies. (Spring 2002): 46-52.