Chair: “Racial Formation and Region.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Convention. Baltimore, Maryland. November 14, 2024.
Roundtable Discussant: “Slavery and Jim Crow in Popular Culture.” Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Conference. Chicago, Illinois. April 4, 2025.
July 10, 2024
SCHOLARLY STORYTELLER – “Harriet Jacobs and Abolition.” Past to Present Summer Institute: Teaching the History and Legacies of Enslavement and Facilitating Classroom Conversations on Complex Topics. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.
June 21, 2024
PANELIST – “The Importance of Sharing Research Outside of Academia.” Conference of Ford Fellows. Washington, D.C
June 3, 2024
INTERLOCUTOR – Conversation honoring Dr. Janet Dewart Bell’s BLACKBIRDS SINGING. New York, NY. [Premiered June 19, 2024]
May 8, 2024
INTERLOCUTOR – Conversation honoring Dr. Robin Bernstein’s FREEMAN’S CHALLENGE. Brookline Booksmith. Boston, MA. Video archived here.
May 3, 2024
CHAIR – “Archival Silences.” Historic Children’s Voices Symposium (1799-1899). American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, MA.
April 4, 2024
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – Editing INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. [Online] English Department. Lehigh University. Bethlehem, PA.
March 17, 2024
BOOK EVENT – Editing INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Octavia’s Bookshelf. Pasadena, CA.
March 16, 2024
CHAIR – “The Ends of Anti-Black Violence.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Pasadena, CA.
March 5, 2024
INTERLOCUTOR – Conversation honoring Dr. Jennifer Gómez’s THE CULTURAL BETRAYAL OF BLACK WOMEN & GIRLS. Boston University. Boston, MA.
February 7, 2024
INVITED LECTURE – “What If Americans Had Listened to Black Women of the Nineteenth Century?” Katherine Kearney Carpenter Endowed Lecture (Est. 1967). Ohio Wesleyan University. Delaware, OH.
February 1, 2024
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – Editing INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. [Online] Government Department. Claremont McKenna College. Claremont, CA.
January 5, 2024
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “Feminist Approaches to Scholarly Editing.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA.
January 5, 2024
CHAIR – “Building Kinship, Seeking Home in Postbellum African American Print.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA.
November 3, 2023
RESPONDENT – “Censorship in the Classroom: Addressing Anti-Blackness and the Regulation of Sexuality in Education.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA.
October 4, 2023
INVITED LECTURE – “Lynching & Anti-LGBT Violence: Making the Connection.” Boston University. Boston, MA.
September 16, 2023
WORKSHOP – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [Online] SUNY Canton. Canton, NY.
September 10, 2023
COMMUNITY OUTREACH – Editing INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. [Online]. The Baton Foundation. Atlanta, GA.
August 16, 2023
MODERATOR – “Culture, Context and Community.” Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Retreat. Albuquerque, NM.
May 10, 2023
INVITED LECTURE – “Harriet Jacobs and Homemade Citizenship.” Department of African and African American Studies. Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH.
January 8, 2023
RESPONDENT – “Scholars of Color Decentering Whiteness in the Academy.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA.
January 6, 2023
RESPONDENT – “Editing African American Literature.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA.
January 6, 2023
RESPONDENT – Roundtable dedicated to From Slave Cabins to the White House. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA.
December 9, 2022
CHAIR – “For the Culture: Black Women’s Creative Production and Performance.” Association of Black Women Historian (ABWH) Symposium. Los Angeles, CA.
November 6, 2022
RESPONDENT – “Intimate Renderings of Black Homeplace.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA.
October 8, 2022
MODERATOR – “Negotiating Career and Personal Wellness.” Ford Fellows Conference. Online.
October 6, 2022
MODERATOR – “Demystifying the Tenure Process – Social Sciences & Humanities.” Ford Fellows Conference. Online.
October 1, 2022
DISCUSSANT – Conversation honoring Dr. Julius Fleming’s BLACK PATIENCE. Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH) Conference. Montgomery, AL.
September 30, 2022
DISCUSSANT – Conversation honoring Dr. Treva Lindsey’s AMERICA GODDAM. Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH) Conference. Montgomery, AL.
September 23, 2022
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – Applying for Ford Foundation Fellowships. Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
May 6, 2022
WORKSHOP – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [Online] California Institute of Technology. Pasadena, CA.
April 29, 2022
WORKSHOP – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [Online] University of Buffalo. Buffalo, NY.
April 20, 2022
COMMUNITY OUTREACH – Guest on Lurie Daniel Favors Show. SiriusXM. Archived here.
April 7, 2022
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – “Allies, Accomplices, World Citizens: A Conversation with Koritha Mitchell.” [Online, 2 sessions] Westfield State University. Westfield, MA.
April 6, 2022
INVITED LECTURE – “Lynching & Anti-LGBT Violence: Making the Connection.” [Online] Westfield State University. Westfield, MA.
April 2, 2022
RESPONDENT – Nineteenth-Century Femininities: Scenes, Accessories, Strategies, Scale. Biennial Conference of C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists. Coral Gables, FL.
March 14, 2022
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – Editing Frances Harper’s IOLA LEROY. [Online] English Department. Boston College. Boston, MA.
March 14, 2022
COMMUNITY OUTREACH – Guest on Lurie Daniel Favors Show. SiriusXM. Discussing white mediocrity & know-your-place aggression. Archived here.
March 1, 2022
COMMUNITY OUTREACH – From Slave Cabins to the White House, Black History Month book club selection. [Online] Aurora Innovations. Bay Area, CA/Dallas, TX/Pittsburgh, PA/Seattle, WA.
February 1, 2022
COMMUNITY OUTREACH – Guest on Lurie Daniel Favors Show. SiriusXM. Discussing white mediocrity & know-your-place aggression. Archived here.
2021 Events
November 12, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] University of Colorado. Boulder, CO.
October 27, 2021
INVITED LECTURE – Homemade Citizenship: Black Success in the Face of White Violence. [ONLINE] Notre Dame Department of American Studies. South Bend, IN.
October 9, 2021
KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Conference of Ford Fellows. “Honey, You Better Make Yourself at Home!” Theme: Building Resilience and Inspiring Courage. [ONLINE] National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering. Washington, D.C.
September 23, 2021
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – Homemade Citizenship: Black Success in the Face of White Violence. [ONLINE] Congregation Beth Tikvah (Synagogue), Senior Citizen group. Worthington, OH.
September 10, 2021
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “Reactivating Memory Now: Artistry, Journalism, Scholarship.” REACTIVATING MEMORY: Shuffle Along and the Tulsa Race Massacre: A Centennial Symposium. [ONLINE] Lewis Center for the Arts. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ.
September 9, 2021
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – Racial Trauma in the Classroom: A Moderated Conversation. [ONLINE] Center for Literary and Comparative Studies and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. University of Maryland, College Park. College Park, MD.
September 7, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Writing and Publishing Scholarly Books. [ONLINE] University of Buffalo. Buffalo, NY.
August 11, 2021
DISCUSSANT – “They Must See Us: The Power & Role of Black Women in American History.” National Anti-Racism Teach-In. [Online]
May 14, 2021
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – “African American Women, Achievement, and Citizenship.” [ONLINE] Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco. (Students aged 60 and over.) San Francisco, CA.
April 29, 2021
INVITED LECTURE – “Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.” [ONLINE] American Antiquarian Society. Program in the History of the Book in American Culture (PHBAC) Virtual Lecture Series. Worcester, MA.
April 28, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS). Morristown, NJ
April 23, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] DePauw University. Greencastle, IN.
April 16, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Little Rock, AR.
April 9, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Developing Community Standards. [ONLINE] Africana Studies Program, University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Knoxville, TN.
April 5, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] Office of the Provost, University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Knoxville, TN.
March 25, 2021
INVITED LECTURE – “Homemade Citizenship: Black Success in the Face of White Violence.” [ONLINE] Bridgewater State University. Bridgewater, MA. (Follow-up video here.)
March 10, 2021
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – “Homemade Citizenship: Black Success in the Face of White Violence.” [ONLINE] Young Scholars Program Recruitment Event for promising Ohio public school 9th graders. Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
March 5, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Writing & Publishing Your First Scholarly Book. [ONLINE] NSF-funded ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM.
March 3, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Ethical Orientations for Collegiality, Mentoring, and Teaching. [ONLINE] NSF-funded ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program, Murray State University. Murray, KY.
February 26, 2021
COMMUNITY OUTREACH – Sistas Simply Book Club. [ONLINE] Chicago, IL.
February 17, 2021
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – Racial Violence and Anti-LGBT Violence: Parallels and Intersections. [ONLINE] Johnson Matthey PLC. London, England.
February 11, 2021
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – Editing IOLA LEROY. [ONLINE] The Aldus Society. Columbus, Ohio.
January 27, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] McCraw Center for Teaching & Learning. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ.
January 20, 2021
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] Bucknell University. Lewisburg, PA.
January 16, 2021
POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSANT – Dramatic Reading of the 1919 lynching play Aftermath by Mary Burrill. [Online] Metropolitan Playhouse. New York, NY.
2020 Events
December 17, 2020
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts-Boston. Boston, MA.
December 7, 2020
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – High school English class at Lycée Collège des Creusets Martigny. [ONLINE] Instructor: Gaétan Ma’ret. Canton of Valais, Switzerland.
November 6, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR – Celebration of Notable New Books. [ONLINE]. Civil War Caucus.
October 25, 2020
INVITED LECTURE – “Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.” [ONLINE] Baton Foundation. Atlanta, GA.
October 8, 2020
FEATURED READER – A Community Reading of The Bluest Eye. [ONLINE] Cornell University. Ithaca, NY. (My section here)
October 8, 2020
INVITED LECTURE – “Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.” [ONLINE] University of Illinois. MillerComm Endowed Lecture Series. Champaign, IL.
October 7, 2020
WORKSHOP – Violence in U.S. Education: Approaches & Practices. [ONLINE] Sponsored by the University of Illinois for faculty and graduate student instructors. Champaign, IL.
October 2, 2020
WORKSHOP LEADER – Anti-Racist Approaches & Practices. [ONLINE] American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS). National organization.
September 26, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR – Pygmalion Literary Festival. [ONLINE] Recording of me reading from my book’s Coda, “From Mom-in-Chief to Predator-in-Chief”
September 22, 2020
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH – What Do Lynching and Anti-LGBT Violence Have in Common? “Ask a Bishop” Series. [Online] Ohio Wesleyan University. Delaware, OH.
September 17, 2020
INVITED LECTURE – “Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.” [ONLINE] Trinity University, Humanities Collective. San Antonio, TX.
September 11, 2020
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI.
August 18, 2020
WORKSHOP LEADER – Mentors + Cultural Awareness = Empowered Futures. [ONLINE] College of Wooster. Wooster, OH.
August 17, 2020
WORKSHOP LEADER – Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture. [ONLINE] College of Wooster. Sponsored by the Office of the President. Wooster, OH.
August 5, 2020
FEATURED GUEST – Toni Morrison’s Beloved. [ONLINE] OSU English Alumni Book Club. Columbus, OH.
July 29, 2020
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “Harper Studies in 2020.” [ONLINE] Dickens Universe. Santa Cruz, CA.
January 2020
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “Being Online: Risks and Rewards for Women in Academe.” Women’s Caucus, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Seattle, WA.
January 2020
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “The United States Suffrage Centennial and the Politics of Memorialization: Literary Engagements in Public Storytelling.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Seattle, WA.
January 2020
CHAIR – “Critical Approaches to the Study of White Supremacy.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Seattle, WA.
2019 Events
November 16, 2019
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “The Role Model We Ignore at Our Peril: Frances E. W. Harper.” Civil War Caucus, Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
November 7 – 10, 2019
NATIONAL CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR – American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Theatre’s Many Publics. Arlington, VA.
October 21, 2019
INVITED SPEAKER – “From Slave Cabins to the White House: A Conversation.” Bowdoin College. Brunswick, ME.
October 21, 2019
GUEST LECTURER – Discussion of the Broadview Edition of Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy. Bowdoin College. Brunswick, ME.
October 12, 2019
SPECIAL GUEST PARTICIPANT – SSAWW Texas Regional Study Group discussion of the Broadview Edition of Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy. Hosted at Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX.
October 11, 2019
WORKSHOP LEADER – “Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture.” Humanities Center. Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX.
October 5, 2019
CHAIR – “Negotiating Career and Personal Wellness.” Conference of Ford Foundation Fellows. San Juan, PR.
May 23, 2019
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “Women Writers and the Nineteenth Amendment.” American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference. Boston, MA.
April 22, 2019
INVITED LECTURE – “Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.” Maurine Magliocco Endowed Lecture. English Department. Western Illinois University. Macomb, IL.
March 22, 2019
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “MLA-Sponsored Panel: Multi-ethnic Literature within the English Department and Major.” The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Annual Conference. Cincinnati, OH.
January 5, 2019
PANELIST – “Violent Times, Visionary Teaching.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Chicago, IL.
January 4, 2019
PANELIST – “Not About Protest.” President’s Special Session: Humanities in Five. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Chicago, IL.
2018 Events
December 6, 2018
INVITED LECTURER –“Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.” American Studies Department and the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America (CSREA). Brown University. Providence, RI.
November 16, 2018
INVITED PANELIST – “Legacies of Lynching and Anti-lynching Activism.” The Legacy of Lynching: Art and Practice Symposium. Haverford College. Philadelphia, PA.
November 10, 2018
PANELIST – “Why Americans Know Frederick Douglass but not Frances E. W. Harper.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA.
October 20, 2018
PANELIST – “New Instructors: Owning Your Legitimacy in the Classroom.” Conference of Ford Foundation Fellows. Irvine, CA.
October 6, 2018
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “Teaching in the #MeToo Moment.” Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH) Conference. Indianapolis, IN.
September 28, 2018
WORKSHOP LEADER – “Ford Foundation Fellowships: Their Mission & Strategies for Applying.” Ohio State University. Columbus, OH.
April 18, 2018
SEMINAR SPEAKER – “Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.” Nonviolence: A Global Lexicon. Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Brown University. Providence, RI.
March 23, 2018
SEMINAR LEADER – Performing Citizenship in Hostile Climates. C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists Biennial Convention. Albuquerque, NM.
January 6, 2018
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSANT – “Black Literary Theory in the Time of Trump.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. New York, NY.
2017 Events
November 18, 2017
PANEL – Organizer & Presenter: Author-Meets-Critics session on Brittney Cooper’s Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Black Women. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD.
November 12, 2017
PANEL – Chair & Respondent: “The Matter of Teaching and the Politics of Race: Technology, Markets, Institutions.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.
August 1, 2017
WORKSHOP LEADER – “Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture.” (For K-12 educators). New Jersey Department of Education, Amistad Commission Summer Institute. Union, NJ.
July 25, 2017
WORKSHOP LEADER – “Responsible Teaching in a Violent Culture.” (For K-12 educators). New Jersey Department of Education, Amistad Commission Summer Institute. Glassboro, NJ.
April 3, 2017
INVITED LECTURER – “Making Home & Making Citizenship—from Scratch”
University of Chicago 20th/21st Century Workshop.
2016 Events
March 8, 2017
NDIAS SEMINAR SPEAKER – “From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture”
Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Notre Dame, Indiana
November 24, 2016
PLENARY PANELIST – “The History of Callaloo: An Interview with Charles Rowell.” Callaloo‘s 40th Anniversary: A Conference. Oxford, ENGLAND
November 17, 2016
ROUNDTABLE – “An Immodest Proposal: Confronting the Alt-Ac Trend in American Studies Graduate Programs.” American Studies Association (ASA) Conference. Denver, CO
October 8, 2016
PANEL – “Our Health is Our Wealth.” Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH) Conference. Richmond, VA
October 6, 2016
PANEL – “A Critical Conversation on Black Women and Violence.” Association for the Study of African American Life & History (ASALH) Conference. Richmond, VA
September 24, 2016
SPECIAL INTEREST SESSION – “Presumed Incompetent? Gendering the Academic Enterprise.” Conference of Ford Foundation Fellows. Washington, D.C.
September 23, 2016
SPECIAL INTEREST SESSION – “The Second Shift: Negotiating Career and Personal Wellness”
Conference of Ford Foundation Fellows. Washington, D.C.
September 23, 2016
PLENARY PANEL – “Empowering Communities by Exposing Know-Your-Place Aggression”
Conference of Ford Foundation Fellows. Washington, D.C.
September 9, 2016
INVITED LECTURE – “A House is not a Home: New Negro Women & Homemaking Anxiety”
Notre Dame Department of English. Notre Dame, IN
May 27, 2016
PANEL – “Teaching Baldwin Today (Part 2)”
American University of Paris. Paris, FR
April 7, 2016
PANEL – “Re-Imagining a Language for Black Rhetoric and Politics”
College Language Association (CLA) Annual Convention. Houston, TX
April 4, 2016
WELCOME – “Embodied Practices of Belonging”
Black Lives/Writers Matter Symposium, Ohio State University, English Department. Columbus, OH
January 7, 2016
PANEL – “Checkpoints”
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Austin, TX
2015 Events
November 7, 2015
BOOK SIGNING – Living with Lynching
Big Blue Marble Bookstore. Philadelphia, PA 19119
November 6, 2015
MENTORING BREAKFAST – “The Book Project”
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Convention. Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 5:00pm
SYLLABUS ROUNDTABLE – “Womanhood in Black and White”
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Convention. Philadelphia, PA
October 28, 2015
WORKSHOP – “Leading by Recognizing that Diversity Breeds Excellence”
ILEAD USA-Ohio Leadership Conference. Mohican State Park Lodge & Conference Center. Perrysville, OH
October 20, 2015
INVITED LECTURE – “A House is not a Home: New Negro Women and Homemaking Anxiety.” Haverford College. Haverford, PA
October 8, 2015
PANEL – “Blackness and the Miseries of Law in the Long Afterlife of Slavery”
American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference. Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
October 5, 2015
INVITED LECTURE – “Lynching & Anti-LGBT Violence: Making the Connection”
Texas Christian University. Fort Worth, TX
September 25, 2015
PANEL – “Invisible Labor: Exploitation of Marginalized Scholars”
Conference of Ford Foundation Fellows. Washington, D.C.
August 29, 2015
POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION – Rachel (1st black-authored lynching play)
New Brooklyn Theatre. Irondale Center. Brooklyn, New York
May 17, 2015
POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION – Dramatic Reading of the 1929 lynching play Safe by Georgia Douglas Johnson. JACK Arts Center. Brooklyn, New York
May 1 – 2, 2015
WORKING GROUP – “How Can We Work It Out?: Black Performance between Death and Life.”
Black Performance Theory. New York University and St. Johns College, New York City.
April 7, 2015
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. Departments of Comparative American Studies and English
Thursday, March 26, 2015
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Department of African & Afro-American Studies
January 10, 2015
ROUNDTABLE – “Democracy in American Literary & Cultural Studies: Past, Present, Future”
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Vancouver, BC
2014 Events
November 21, 2014
CAREER SESSION – “Work-Life Balance”
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference. Baltimore, MD
November 10, 2014
PANEL – “The N-Word: A Not-So-Tough Topic in the Classroom”
Ohio State University English Department. Columbus, OH
November 9, 2014
BOOK SIGNING – Living with Lynching
Eso Won Books. Los Angeles, CA
November 9, 2014
PANEL – “Michelle Obama, Medical Center Administrator, Plays Mom-in-Chief”
American Studies Association conference. Los Angeles, CA
October 24, 2014
PLENARY PANEL – “Racial Violence & Anti-LGBT Violence: Making the Connection”
Washington University. St. Louis, MO
October 15, 2014
OPENING CEREMONIES – Dramatic Reading & Discussion with the Playwright: Ifa Bayeza’s The Ballad of Emmett Till
Callaloo Conference
Emory University. Atlanta, GA
September 28, 2014
PANEL – “Getting the Message Out: Public Sphere Writing and Speaking”
Senior Ford Fellows Conference. Irvine, CA
September 26, 2014
PLENARY PANEL – “Wellness: You Cannot Lead if You Are Not Well”
Ford Fellows Conference. Irvine, CA
June 23, 2014
PLENARY PANEL – “Maximizing Your Fellowship Year”
Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellows Retreat. Atlanta, GA
June 6, 2014
PLENARY PANEL – “New Approaches”
James Baldwin: Transatlantic Commuter Conference. Montpellier, France
March 29, 2014
PANEL – “Home as Civil Right: A Raisin in the Sun”
Process-Practice-Pedagogy Colloquium
University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI
March 14, 2014
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Library of Congress. Washington, DC
February 27, 2014
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Kenyon College. Gambier, OH
February 20, 2014
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Texas Tech University, Department of History. Lubbock, TX
2013 Events
November 23, 2013
PANEL – “Pay Yourself First & Pay It Forward: The Black Girls RUN! Project.”
American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference. Washington, DC
November 15, 2013
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Charlottesville, VA
November 14, 2013
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
University of Richmond, Theatre Department. Richmond, VA
October 10, 2013
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Sig Synnestvedt Memorial Lecture, Annual Endowed Event
College of Brockport. Brockport, NY
April 6, 2013
PANEL – “Black Beauty as Saving Grace: Homemaking Anxiety in Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness”
Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, OH
March 22, 2013
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Women’s History Month Keynote
Marietta College. Marietta, OH
February 4, 2013
INVITED LECTURE – “Living with Lynching”
Black History Month Keynote
Bucknell University. Lewisburg, PA
January 5, 2013
PANEL – “A Semiotics of (Online) Desire: Michelle Obama and the Politics of Aspiration”
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Boston, MA