Areas of Expertise:
- Early African American intellectual history
- Early African American print culture
- Early national and antebellum U.S. racial history
- Black studies
- Early national and antebellum U.S. literature
- U.S. protest writing
- Early Black liberation theology
- Phillis Wheatley Peters
- The Black Atlantic
My research interests are motivated by a theoretical concern with how language shapes perception and the psycho-somatic experience of reality. How are our behaviors rhetorically motivated? How are these constitutive processes directed by anti-Black apparatuses and institutions of power? How may they be redirected towards revolution?
