Expertise

Both her teaching and research focus on representations of black Africans in early Atlantic literature, emphasizing the racial/cultural ideologies that helped shape English encounters with the early Americas and helped shape the literature produced about those encounters.

Research Areas

  • African-American Literature
  • Early American Literature
  • Renaissance Literature

Expertise:

  • British Literature
Communities
English
Degrees
PhD, Purdue University, Early American Literature, 2010
MFA, Purdue University, Creative Writing, 2005
BS, Florida A&M University, Journalism, 2000