Education
Ph.D., English, The Ohio State University
M.A., African American & African Studies, The Ohio State University
B.A., English and Music, Fisk University Publications
Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, Palgrave MacMillan 2015.
“On the Real: Agency, Abuse, and Sexualized Violence in Rihanna’s ‘Russian Roulette.’” African American Review 46;1 (2013): 71-86.
“African Brazilian Science Fiction: Aline França’s A Mulher de Aleduma.” Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora. 13.1 (2012): 15-36.
“Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, and the Black Female Youth in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.” In Black Female Sexualities. Trimiko Melancon and Joanne Braxton, eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015: 57-69.
“‘What’s My Name?:’ Reading Rihanna’s Autobiographical Acts.” In Rihanna: Barbados World-Gurl in Global Popular Culture. Hilary McD. Beckles and Heather D. Russell, eds. Jamaica: University of West Indies Press, 2015: 96-118.
“Africana Women’s Science Fiction and Narrative Medicine: Difference, Ethics, and Empathy.” In Afrofuturism 2.0. Reynaldo Anderson and Charles Jones, eds. Lexington Books, 2016. Memberships
CHCI Medical Humanities Network
ASWAD
MLA
