Field of interest:
- Contemporary African American Literature, The African American Literary Tradition, Postmodern Literature, African American Popular Culture, 20th Century American Literature, Popular Fiction.
My research and teaching focuses on contemporary African American literature and culture.
I am currently working on a book analyzing the writing of first and second generation immigrants from Africa to the United States (under contract at Northwestern University Press), and another project focusing on the relationship between the representation of educational institutions in the post-Brown v. Board period and the construction of Black identity.
