About
Division Chair in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences and the Mary Alice Muellerleile ’60 Endowed Chair in English at St. Catherine University. My research explores anti-racist pedagogy and issues of identity in texts across a range of media, including works of electronic literature. Education
Ph.D., 2011, English (Honors), University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
M.A., 2006, English, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
B.A., 2004, English and Philosophy, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio Publications
Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination. U of Georgia P, 2017.
Community Boundaries and Border Crossings: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers, edited by Kristen Lillvis, Robert Miltner, and Molly Fuller, Lexington, 2016.
“Teaching Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’ and the Tenets of Afrofuturism.” Approaches to Teaching Octavia E. Butler in the Academy, edited by Tarshia L. Stanley, Modern Language Association, 2019.
“When Rubrics Need Revision: A Collaboration Between STEM Faculty and the Writing Center” (with Anna Rollins). Composition Forum, no. 40, Fall 2018.
“Take Me to Your Lady Leader.” New Ohio Review, vol. 20, 2016, pp. 175-78.
“Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Slavery? The Problems and Promise of Mothering in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Bloodchild.’” MELUS, vol. 39, issue 4, Winter 2014, pp. 7-22.
“Becoming Self and Mother: Posthuman Liminality in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 54, issue 4, 2013, pp. 452-64.
“Maternal Bodies and Posthuman Culture in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering, edited by Dorsía Silva and Simone A. James Alexander, Africa World P, 2013. pp. 243-62.
“Essentialism and Constructionism in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling.” Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre, edited by Karen Hellekson, Craig B. Jacobsen, Patrick B. Sharp, and Lisa Yaszek, McFarland, 2010, pp. 168-82.
