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B.S. Vanderbilt University; M.A. Howard University; Ph.D. University of Missouri at Columbia
Areas of Expertise
Latin American, Afro-Hispanic, US Latino, African Diaspora and Comparative Literatures; Film Studies and Contemporary Theory
Selected Works
"Malcolm X-ism and the Protest Poetry of Blas Jiménez: Liberation 'By Any Means Necessary'" in Malcolm X: A Historical Reader, J L Conyers and A P Smallwood (eds.), (2008) 315-329.
"Cultural Transnationalism and Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Poetry: The Case of Blas Jiménez and Nancy Morejón," in Writing the Afro-Hispanic: Africa and Africans in Spanish Caribbean Culture, C James and S Brown (eds.), (2008) 12-21.
"Afro-Hispanic Literature in the US: Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Present, and Forging a Future," IPOTESI-Revista de Estudos Literários (2008) 21-29.
"African American History in Review: A Literary Perspective," Transit Circle, 5 (2006) 60-77.
Afro-Hispanic Review, co-editor, 25:1 (2006).
Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "Darkening" of Latin American Literature, (2005).
Current Projects
Caribbean-African Upon Awakening: Poetry by Blas Jiménez (Forthcoming 2010); (Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts: A Cultural Studies Reader." Under contract with Peter Lang Publishing. Anticipated release: Spring 2010; "Mulher, negra, caribenha, canadense e lésbica: Descobrindo e representando os seres na poesia de Dionne Brand?," in Migrações teóricas, interlocuções culturais, Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2010.
