Teaching & Research Fields

• African American literary and cultural studies, especially poetry
• 19th Century US Literature and print culture
• Classical reception studies
• Rhetoric, literacy, and history of educational access in the US
• Feminist and critical race theory

Courses Taught

University of Michigan: Afroamerican & African Studies, English, and Classics (2014-2018)

• First Year Seminar: Black Women, Black Arts
• The Art of Protest: Activist Aesthetics from Abolitionism to #BlackLivesMatter
• Black Women in the United States, Part I: The 19^th Century
• “A Litany for Survival”: African American Women’s Poetry
• 19^th Century U.S. Women’s Poetry
• Social Perceptions in 19^th Century American Literature
• Black Atlantic Classicisms
• First Year Seminar: Black Odysseys: Classics in America
• Honors Program: Great Books

University of California, Santa Cruz: Languages and Literature (2008-2013)

• Elementary Latin 1
• Teaching Assistant for Literature Department (12 courses)