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Associate Professor
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Academic Profile
Specializes in Caribbean and African American literatures. Her scholarly interests include literatures of the Americas, particularly 20th Century women’s popular fiction, mystery/detective, and futurist fiction/fantasy writing. She is currrently interested in the detective and/or futurist fiction of Nalo Hopkinson, Walter Mosley, BarbaraNeely, and Colson Whitehead. Her first manuscript, “Colón Man a Come”: Mythographies of Panamá Canal Migration, examines the recurrent figure of the Panama Canal worker in Caribbean literature, song, and memoir.
Courses
Publications (selected)
Manuscripts
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“Colón Man a Come”: Mythographies of Panamá Canal Migration. Lanham, M.D.: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, January 2005.
Articles
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“Beyond the Pale, Beyond the Dark: Representing Caribbean Racial Realities at a US University,” Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature, edited by Supriya Nair, MLA Options for Teaching Series. Under review.
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“Walrond’s Panamá Women: Building a Mythography of Caribbean Female Migrants”
A critical anthology on Eric Walrond, edited by Louis Parascandola and Carl Wade, under consideration by the University of Mississippi Press. Under consideration. -
“The Colón Man” and “Jan Carew.” Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. MacMillan Reference Books, December 2005.
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“Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.” Gender and History 15.3 (November 2003): 487-506. Reissued in Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas. Edited by Sandra Gunning, Tera W. Hunter, and Michele Mitchell. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004: 91-110.
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“Mythographies of Panamá Canal Migrations: Eric Walrond’s ‘Panama Gold’.” Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean. Oxford: Macmillan Press—Warwick University Caribbean Studies, 2003. pp. 43-76.
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“What If You’re an ‘Incredibly Unattractive, Fat, Pastrylike-fleshed Man’?: Teaching Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place.” College Literature 30.3 (Summer 03): 1-18.
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“Colón Man Version: Oppositional Narratives and Jamaican Identity in Michael Thelwell’s The Harder They Come.” Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research 2.2 (2002): 157-176.
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“Jamaica Kincaid,” The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, 2001.
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“The Ethnic Consciousness Movement.” The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Reviews
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Review of Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston by Susan Edwards Meisenhelder (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999) for American Literature 73.1 (March 2001): 209-210.
Additional Professional Information
Awards and Honors
- Emerging Voices, New Directions/Ford Foundation/Bowdoin College Summer Grant, 2003.
- Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2001-2002.
- DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2001-2002. (declined)
- Faculty Fellowship, Boston College, Fall 2001. (declined)
- Research Incentive Grant, Boston College, Spring 2000.
Professional Organizations
- American Studies Association (ASA)
- Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS)
- Caribbean Studies Association (CSA)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)