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books

Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Black Objects (Chapel Hill: The UNC Press, January 2024).

Inventing theNew Negro: Narrative, Culture, Ethnography (Philadelphia: University of PennsylvaniaPress, 2008), Honorable Mention MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize (2008) journal articles and book chapters

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

“Putting Flesh on a Theory of the Post-Soul.” In Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings, edited by Michael Kelly and Monique Roloefs. London: (Bloomsbury Press, January 2024)

“Swing Time: Zadie Smith’s Aesthetic of Active Ambivalence,” Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics, Editors, Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George NewYork: (Routledge UP, 2020)

“The City Child’s Quest: Spatiality and Sociality in Paule Marshall’sThe Fisher King," Black Women’s Transnationalisms (special issue), Editors, Jennifer Williams and Ifeoma Nwankwo, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 15.2 (2017) 491-506

“Blackness Written, Erased, Rewritten:” James Weldon Johnson, Teju Cole, and the Palimpsest of Modernity," New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Editor, Noelle Morrissette,

(Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017) 112-127

“Passing Strange: Embodying and Negotiating Difference in Academia,” Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy, Editor, Sarah Willie-LeBreton, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016) 171-183.

“Carnival In The Creole City: Place, Race and Identity in the Age of Globalization,” Life Stories in the Creole City (special issue), Editors, Cynthia Dobbs, Daphne Lamothe & Theresa Tensuan, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 35.2 (Spring 2012) 360-374

“Introduction: Carnival in the Creole City: Place, Race andIdentity in the Age of Globalization,” Cynthia Dobbs, Daphne Lamothe & Theresa Tensuan, Life Stories in the Creole City (special issue), Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 35.2 (Spring 2012) v-xi

“Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day: Bridging Roots and Routes,”African American Review, 39. 1-2, (2005)155-169

“Cane: Jean Toomer’s Gothic Black Modernism,” The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions inthe Literary Imagination, Editors, Ruth Bienstock Anolick and Douglas Howard (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Press, 2004) 54-71

“Vodou Imagery, African American Tradition and Cultural Transformation in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Callaloo: A Journal of African and African American Literature, 22.1 (1999)157-175; and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook, Editor, Cheryl A.Wall, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) 165-187 (Reprint); and Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God, Editor, La Vinia Delois Jennings, (Evanston, Il: Northwestern UP 2013) 69-94 (Reprint)