Not About Protest
February 5, 2019
Library of Congress BookTV Lecture
March 14, 2014
Callaloo Interview: Love in Action: Noting Similarities between Lynching Then & Anti-LGBT Violence Now
October 23, 2013
Michael Harriot & Koritha Mitchell talk white mediocrity
October 20, 2020
CLIP: White Mediocrity & Know-Your-Place Aggression
October 2, 2020
In Conversation with Brittney Cooper
September 3, 2020
The N-word in the Classroom: Just Say NO. A 45-minute audio recording about how to handle racial and other slurs responsibly and with intellectual rigor. C19 Podcast: Official Publication of the Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists. March 4, 2019.
Radio Segment: Black LIT Radio. A monthly 10-minute segment on African American Literature of the Past and Present, for KAZI-FM, Austin, Texas. September 2012 to February 2013.
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“Identity Groups Are Mobilizing for Kamala Harris. That Shows Progress.” Time. July 29, 2024.
Quoted in “Harris’s Campaign Will Have to Contend with DEI, Culture War Attacks.” The Washington Post. July 23, 2024.
Featured as a Public Thinker: “White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy: A Conversation with Koritha Mitchell” by Harvey Young. Public Books. May 15, 2024.
Quoted in “Falling from the Ivies.” Women Rule Newsletter. Politico. April 26, 2024. https://politi.co/3wiZVk3
Interviewed during Level Up the Vote campaign on The New Talk podcast. MOBB United (Moms of Black Boys United). April 22, 2024. https://bit.ly/3UiR7ml
Interviewed about Harriet Jacobs for Women’s History Month. Areva Martin in Real Time. KBLA Talk 1580. March 27, 2024. Video archived at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2Qx9kkimk
Interviewed about the Underground Railroad postage stamps and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. A More Perfect Union with Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey. KBLA Talk 1580. March 15, 2024. Segment starts around 11:00 on video archived at https://bit.ly/3PtGQSL
Interviewed about former Harvard University president Dr. Claudine Gay and my research. Lurie Daniel Favors Show. SiriusXM. January 10, 2024.
Interviewed about former Harvard University president Dr. Claudine Gay and my research. Areva Martin in Real Time. KBLA Talk 1580. January 8, 2024.
“To Her Opponents, Harvard’s Claudine Gay’s Crime Was Not Knowing Her Place.” MSNBC. January 4, 2024.
“‘I Was Determined to Remember’: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies.” Los Angeles Review of Books. May 30, 2023.
***Reprinted August 2023 in Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, no. 38: Earth
Cited in “The Beautiful Struggle,” a book review essay by historian Manisha Sinha. The New York Review of Books. April 20, 2023.
“Harriet Jacobs Was a Pioneer in Exposing Racial and Sexual Violence.” The Washington Post. March 7, 2023.
Quoted in “5 ways FX’s ‘Kindred’ is different from Octavia E. Butler’s novel.” Mashable. December 12, 2022. https://mashable.com/article/kindred-book-vs-show
Quoted in “‘Black Love’ Creators Tommy and Codie Oliver Continue To Mold The Future Of Black Storytelling.” Forbes. December 2, 2022.
Guest Co-host, Karen Hunter Show. SiriusXM. August 22, 2022. Video clip archived at https://youtu.be/noOGV3PCrTM
Guest Co-host, Karen Hunter Show. SiriusXM. August 2, 2022. Video clip archived at https://youtu.be/YUZkkQX50Ek
Guest on the Karen Hunter Show. Sirius XM. July 11, 2022. Video clip archived at https://youtu.be/08rsrO1iFm0
Interviewed about Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Bonnets at Dawn Podcast. (Also discussed Frances E. W. Harper and Iola Leroy.) May 22, 2022. Archived at https://apple.co/3wD40gm
Guest on the Lurie Daniel Favors Show. Sirius XM. April 20, 2022. Archived at https://bit.ly/3l1XOYO
Interviewed about Frances E. W. Harper and IOLA LEROY. Lost Ladies of Lit podcast. March 22, 2021.
Quoted in “How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics.” FiveThirtyEight. March 21, 2022.
Guest on the Lurie Daniel Favors Show. Sirius XM. March 14, 2022. Archived at https://bit.ly/3w8wNty
Guest on the Lurie Daniel Favors Show. Sirius XM. February 1, 2022. Archived at https://bit.ly/3so69KJ
“How Reading Queer Authors Improved My Relationships.” Los Angeles Review of Books. December 15, 2021.
Interviewed on Busy Being Black podcast. October 20, 2021.
From Slave Cabins to the White House favorably reviewed in “Necessary Housework: Dismantling the Master’s House.” Public Books. October 15, 2021.
“Stop Asking If ‘The Chair’ is Realistic.” CNN. August 26, 2021.
“Refusing to Wait for Others to Validate Me.” [print publication; updated version of online article] Time. July 19/July 26, 2021.
“Hannah-Jones Tenure Case Shows White People Overvalued in Academia.” Thomson Reuters Foundation News. July 13, 2021.
Quoted in “House Passes Bill to Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday.” CBS News. June 16, 2021.
Quoted in “Bipoc, Minority, or People of Color?” Chronicle of Higher Education. June 8, 2021.
Quoted in “What is at stake with Nikole Hannah-Jones being denied tenure” by Siva Vaidhyanathan. The Guardian. May 23, 2021.
VIDEO: “Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.” Lecture for the American Antiquarian Society’s Program in the History of the Book in American Culture (PHBAC) series. May 19. 2021.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House by Mindset Coach Brig Johnson. Breakthrough with Brig podcast. May 17, 2021.
Quoted in “Black Academics Celebrate Their Achievements on Their Own Terms.” Chronicle of Higher Education. May 11, 2021.
“I’m a Black Woman Who’s Met All the Standards for Promotion. I’m Not Waiting to Reward Myself.” Time. April 27, 2021.
From Slave Cabins to the White House included in “Beyond the Basics: Books for a Political Education and Liberation” by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Book Riot. April 6, 2021.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House by Christen A. Smith, founder of Cite Black Women. Season 2, Episode 11 of #CiteBlackWomen podcast. March 26, 2021.
VIDEO: Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House by Mark Anthony Neal. Left of Black, Season 11. John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University. April 1, 2021.
Quoted in “Victorian Era-Inspired Momfluencers Are Taking Over Instagram.” InStyle Magazine. March 25, 2021.
“Good Teachers Know That Bodies Matter.” Public Books. March 11, 2021.
Featured Author: ABWH TV Book Short on From Slave Cabins to the White House. February 26, 2021.
Interviewed about American Negro Theater (ANT) founder Abram Hill. Into America with Trymaine Lee. MSNBC podcast. February 25, 2021.
VIDEO: Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House by Gloria Blackwell, Executive Vice President and Chief Program Officer, American Association of University Women (AAUW). February 23, 2021.
“The Resilience of Black Love in Black History.” Black Perspectives. February 12, 2021.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House on Episode 44 of What’s The Message? February 11, 2021.
Panelist: “Election Table Talk, Part II.” ABWH TV, Season 2, Episode 3. January 23, 2021.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House on All Sides with Ann Fisher: “Double Standards for African American Women.” December 10, 2020.
“Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ Showed Me How Race and Gender Are Intertwined.” Electric Literature. November 10, 2020.
Panelist: Post-Election Self-Care. Bitch Media. November 6, 2020. Video recording: here.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House on podcast, New Books in Political Science. November 5, 2020.
Quoted in “I’m a Black person who loves Halloween. Please stop ruining it for me.” USA Today. October 29, 2020.
“The Prescience of Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Los Angeles Review of Books. October 22, 2020.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House on podcast, UCLA’s Then and Now. October 19, 2020.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House on KAZI Book Review. September 14, 2020.
Quoted in “Here’s Why It’s a Big Deal to Capitalize the Word ‘Black.’” Huffington Post. September 7, 2020.
“The Black Ambition of A Raisin in the Sun.” Zócalo Public Square. September 4, 2020.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House on podcast, Imagine Otherwise. September 2, 2020.
Interviewed about From Slave Cabins to the White House on podcast, Axelbank Reports History and Today. August 28, 2020.
“The Delicate Balancing Act of Black Women’s Memoir.” Electric Literature. August 12, 2020.
“Looking Past Protest.” Women’s History Network-UK. August 7, 2020.
Featured in video: Toni Morrison’s Beloved. OSU English Book Club Discussion with James Phelan. Columbus, Ohio. August 5, 2020.
Featured in video: Harper Studies in 2020. Online panel with Brigitte Fielder, Derrick Spires, and Nazera Wright. Virtual Dickens Universe. University of California Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, California. Galway, Ireland. July 29, 2020.
“Black Feminists Are Mobilizing for Trans Women.” Bitch. June 23, 2020.
Quoted in “Tulsa Massacre: The Violence That Shaped Our Nation.” Rolling Stone. June 18, 2020.
“Never Supported a Trans Youth Organization? Now is the Time.” Openly News. June 16, 2020.
“Recent Political Successes Have Made LGBT+ People Targets for Attack.” Openly News. June 4, 2020.
Quoted in “Wilson Jerman: Ex-White House Butler Dies with Coronavirus.” BBC News. May 21, 2020.
Featured in video: Slavery, Race, and COVID-19. Online panel. Moore Institute. Galway, Ireland. May 20, 2020.
“Ida Taught Me.” Black Perspectives. May 16, 2020.
Featured in “Neuroscientist had the best response when mansplained about her own research.” Good Morning America. October 24, 2019.
Featured in video “These women in academia are tired of mansplaining and workplace aggression.” Good Morning America. October 24, 2019.
Quoted in “Trump could have turned his ‘lynching’ comment around. He chose not to.” Independent-UK. October 22, 2019.
Interviewed for “Diversity in Literary Fiction.” All Sides with Ann Fisher. National Public Radio (NPR). September 16, 2019.
“Disability and Self-Determination in Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming.’” The North Star. March 1, 2019.
“The secret to Michelle Obama’s ‘most admired’ status.” CNN. January 1, 2019.
Interviewed for “In every tally of hate crimes, blacks are the most frequent victims.” NBC News. November 23, 2018.
“No, Cindy Hyde-Smith, hanging is no joke.” CNN. November 13, 2018.
Interviewed for “This Halloween: Be Careful How You ‘Hang’ Your Decorations.” Code Switch. National Public Radio (NPR). October 27, 2018.
“New Memorial and Museum: Where the ‘Community’ Impacted by Lynching Includes Women.” Women’s Media Center. May 15, 2018.
Interviewed about edition of Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy on New Books in Literary Studies by Prof.Annette Joseph-Gabriel. New Books Network. April 20, 2018.
Interviewed for “Sympathy for White Austin Bomber Stirs Debate About Race.” PBS News Hour. March 28, 2018.
“In America, White Women Can Get Away With Almost Anything.” The Huffington Post. March 16, 2018.
Interviewed about Frances E. W. Harper and Iola Leroy on The Source radio show by Stephanie Renee. WURD. Philadelphia, PA. March 2, 2018.
“Editing Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy.” Broadview Press Blog. February 21, 2018.
“Know Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton? You should also know Frances E. W. Harper.” Women’s Media Center. February 14, 2018.
Quoted in “Writers and Creators Discuss What It Means to Make Art in the Trump Era.” Electric Literature. December 28, 2017.
Interviewed for “In a divided America, James Baldwin’s fiery critiques reverberate anew.” The Washington Post. July 1, 2017.
Quoted in “An Old Phenomenon: The Victim as Criminal.” Time. September 29, 2016. https://time.com/4508748/victims-as-criminals/
“What I learned about police brutality videos from studying images of lynchings.” Vox. July 28, 2016.
Guest on The MOJO radio show. WURD. Philadelphia, PA. November 4, 2015.
“I’m a professor. My colleagues who let their students dictate what they teach are cowards.” Vox. June 10, 2015.
Interviewed in “Deaths Of Unarmed Black Men Revive ‘Anti-Lynching Plays.’” Morning Edition. National Public Radio (NPR). April 17, 2015.
Featured in “Group Spotlight: Committee on the Literatures of People of Color.” MLA Commons Newswire. April 2015.
TV interview: “Racism Documentary to Show at OSU’s Mershon Auditorium.” NBC4 News. March 11, 2015.
“What #Ferguson2MLA Means to Me.” MLA Commons: Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the U.S. and Canada. January 13, 2015.
Featured guest on Liberated Sisters radio show. KPFK-90.7 FM. Los Angeles, CA. November 8, 2014. (feature begins around 5:23)
Quoted in “Midterm Elections: What Do Black Women Want?” The Root. October 28, 2014.
Interview on Living With Lynching. PBS’s News and Then. July 30, 2014.
“Supreme Court Agrees With Michigan Voters: Affirmative Action Must Remain for Whites Only.” Huffington Post. April 23, 2014.
Guest on “Racial Tensions on Campus.” To The Point radio show. KCRW, Santa Monica, CA. February 28, 2014.
Featured guest. A Public Affair. WORT 89.9FM, Madison, WI. February 26, 2014.
The Academic Feminist: Koritha Mitchell on Lynching, LGBT Violence, and Love. Feministing – November 7, 2013.
Guest on “The Zimmerman Verdict Divides a Nation.” To The Point radio show. KCRW, Santa Monica, CA. July 15, 2013 (Segment begins ~24:27).
“How Michelle Obama Divides Feminists.” Interview on Minnesota Public Radio show The Daily Circuit. KSJR, Minneapolis, MN. February 19, 2013 (Segment begins at 2:20).
Guest on “Barack Obama Begins His Second Term.” To The Point radio show. KCRW, Santa Monica, CA. January 21, 2013 (Segment on Michelle Obama begins at 42:00).
Four Years Later, Feminists Split by Michelle Obama’s ‘Work’ as First Lady. The Washington Post – January 18, 2013.
Interview by Greg Rasheed on Living with Lynching. KGNU, Boulder, CO. January 15, 2013.
“Should-ing All Over Ourselves.” The Feminist Wire. Forum on Black Women’s Health. November 2, 2012.
Interview by Vershawn Young about book Living with Lynching for audio podcast series New Books in African American Studies. Posted on June 29, 2012.
Interview by Hopeton Hay about book Living with Lynching for KAZI FM Radio in Austin, Texas. Aired June 11, 2012.
Interview about Black Girls RUN! WBNS-10TV. May 4, 2012.
Featured in Ohio Politics web publication Plunderbund.com in “Turning Adversity of Hate Crimes into Victory for Inclusion at OSU.” April 6, 2012.
Interviewed and featured in TV news segment about Hate Crimes on OSU’s campus. April 6, 2012.
Interviewed about Living with Lynching and Trayvon Martin Case. Result: “Trayvon Martin and the Deadly Legacy of Vigilantism.” March 20, 2012.
Interview with Skip Conover on Social Justice Website Archetypeinaction.com. January 21, 2012.
Interview with Michael Eric Dyson on The Michael Eric Dyson Radio Show. January 16, 2012 (MLK Day).
Interview with Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University Webcast Left of Black. December 12, 2011.
Interview with Doug Dangler on Writers Talk. Ohio Channel (PBS Station). October 15, 2011.
AAUW Empowering Women Article, Women, Lynching, and Theater in 2011. October 5, 2011.