Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Indiana University
7a Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
My book, Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative, is now available from Indiana University Press.
I specialize in nineteenth-century American and African American literature and culture with a focus on race representation, mixed race identity, and the interrelationship of literature and visual culture. Other research and teaching interests include graphic novels, autobiography, and critical race studies of historical and contemporary genre fiction.
English 66 Reading Between the Color Line: 19th Century Literature of Interracial Identity
English 67 The Graphic Novel
English 43 Early Black American Literature
English 41 American Prose
African and African American Studies 10, Introduction to African American Studies
• Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Graphic Novels and Autobiography (under contract with Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography Series, University of Wisconsin Press).
•"The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate Material of Dave the Potter." African American Review (forthcoming 2010).
• "'Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture': Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature." American Literature (forthcoming 2010).
• "Terrors of the Mirror and the Mise en Abyme of Graphic Novel Autobiography." College Literature (forthcoming 2009).
• "Is There an African American Graphic Novel?" In Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel. Ed. Stephen Tabachnick. Forthcoming from Modern Language Association Press (2009).
• "Drawing on History in Recent African American Graphic Novels." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. 32.3 (2007): 175-200.
• "International Contexts of the Harlem Renaissance." In Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, ed. George Hutchinson, 41-54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• "Coloring Whiteness and Blackvoice Minstrelsy: Representations of Race and Place in Static Shock, King of the Hill and South Park." Journal of Popular Film and Television 31.4 (2004): 167-75.
• "Slave Cyborgs and the Black Infovirus: Ishmael Reed's Cybernetic Aesthetics." Modern Fiction Studies 49.2 (2003):261-283.
• "Traveling Harlem's Europe: Vagabondage from Slave Narratives to Gwendolyn Bennett's 'Wedding Day' and Claude McKay's Banjo." Journal of Narrative Theory 32.1 (2002): 52-76.
