Forthcoming
A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt
St. Martin’s, February 2025
"African Americans Writing in the Popular Press," in African American Literature in Transition, 1880-1900. Eds. Caroline Gebhard and Barbara McCaskill (New York: Cambridge University Press)
Books
Sutton E. Griggs: Imperium in Imperio, co-editor, Regenerations Series, West Virginia University Press, 2022
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs, with Kenneth W. Warren, University of Georgia Press, 2013
Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America, University of Illinois Press, 2012
Articles/Reviews
“Disfranchisement,” in Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today. Eds. Bert Emerson and Greg Laski. Oxford University Press, 2022.
“The True Friendship of Albion W. Tourgée and Charles W. Chesnutt” in Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée. Eds. Sandra Gustafson and Robert S. Levine. Fordham University Press, 2022.
"Charles Chesnutt and the Reconstruction of Black Education" in K. Diffley & C. Hutchison (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction (Cambridge Companions to Literature, pp. 243-255). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009159173.020
“Sentimentality” in American Literature in Transition, 1820-1850 Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Review of Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual. By Tyler D. Parry in Journal of Southern History-Volume 87, Number 4, November 2021 (jhu.edu)
"On First Looking into Charles Chesnutt's Homer," in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 7.2 (October 2019).
"The Literature of Reconstruction: not in plain black and white" Book Review. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 4.1 (2019):1-2.
"Charles Chesnutt's European Diary" In AngloAmericana Special Issue of Literature d'America (169) 2018.
“Sutton Griggs.” In Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
“Dutchman’s Uncle Tom.” In Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman. Eds. Matthew Calihman and Gerald Early. New York: Modern Language Association, 2018.
“Complicating the Relation between Literature and History: Slave Participation in Fact and Fiction.” In Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War. Ed. Collen Glenney Boggs. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
"Abolition in the Age of Obama," American Literary History, (Fall 2015) 27. 3: 539-548.
Review of Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams in Journal of the Civil War Era 4.1 March 2014. (126-129)
“Finding a Home for Equiano,” in Teaching Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative. University of Tennessee Press, 2012. (95-117)
“Whimsical Constrasts”: Love and Marriage in The Minister’s Wooing and Our Nig in The New England Quarterly March 2011 (Vol. 84, no. 1).
“To Make an Old Century New” Review Essay in American Quarterly December 2010 Vol 62, No. 4, pp. 1001-1012
"Wedded to the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt’s Stories of Segregation" in Representing Segregation, Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division, SUNY Press 2010
“Wedded to Race: Charles Chesnutt’s Marital Fiction” in Studies in American Fiction 36.2 (Autumn 2008) 155-76.
“Making a Collection: James Weldon Johnson and the Mission of African American Literature” Spec. issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 104.3 (2005): 521-541
“Uncle Tom and the Making of Modern African American Literature.” Review of Black Political Economy 33.1 (2005): 73-87.
“I, hereby, vow to Read The Interesting Narrative” in Captivating Voices: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, & Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Eds. Jason Haslam and Julia Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 86-109.
“Making an Art Out of Suffering: Bill T. Jones’ Uncle Tom.” Peering Behind the Curtain: Disabilities in Contemporary Drama. Eds. Kimball King and Thomas Fahy, New York: Routledge, 2002. 35-46
“Being Reena in Canada: A Case of Reckless Eyeballing.” Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Criticism Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2000. 159-167.
“Rev. of Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America.” Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 23.3, (2000): 568-572.
