I am a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia.
I spent July 2008 as a Formby fellow at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University.
"'Don't play no blues': Race, Music, and Mourning in Faulkner's Sanctuary." Forthcoming in The Faulkner Journal.
"Rufus 'Tee Tot' Payne" and "William Thomas (Buckwheat)." African American National Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham. Oxford UP, 2008.
Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, February 2009.
Modernist Studies Association, Vanderbilt University, November 2008.
Re-Configurations of American Studies, Dartmouth College, June 2008.
NYU Colloquium in American Literature and Culture, New York University, November 2007.
Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Celtic Nations, Swansea University, Wales. March 2007.
The Futures of American Studies, Dartmouth College. June 2006.
Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia. March 2006.
Outside American Studies, Dartmouth College. June 2005.
Cultural Studies Association, Northeastern University. May 2004.
Caribbean Soundscapes: A Conference on Caribbean Musics and Culture, Tulane University. March 2004.
Interdisciplinary Studies in Popular Music, UC-Santa Barbara. January 2004.
I'm currently teaching Black Writers and Black Music in America.
Previous courses are listed in my curriculum vitae (PDF).