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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

African American Literature; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Poetry Writing

Degrees

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press (2013, forthcoming).
• "'On Flow'ry Beds of Ease': Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Cultivation of Dialect Poetry in the Century." American Periodicals 20.1 (2010): 46-67.
• "'The Hand of Mysticism': Ethiopianist Writing in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood and the Colored American Magazine." Broadcast on Ethiopia: A Special Issue, Callaloo 33.1 (2010): 278-89.
• "Paul Laurence Dunbar's Performances and the Epistolary Dialect Poem." African American Review 41.2 (2007): 233-238.

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Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

Rev. of Kimiko Hahn, The Narrow Road to the Interior. Harvard Review 33 (2007): 191-3.

"Z. Z. Packer" (encyclopedia entry). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and their Work. Ed. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones. New York: Facts on File, 2010.

Poems

Poems in Volt, Berkeley Poetry Review, Callaloo, Tarpaulin Sky, Tuesday: An Art Project, The Harvard Review, 580 Split, Good Foot.

Work in Progress

Documenting Abyssinia: Imperial Ethiopia and African American Literature (book manuscript)

Additional Projects

Curator, "The Public Life of Poetry: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, and their Contemporaries," Rare Books Exhibition, Boston Public Library, November 2010-January 2011.