Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
• B.A., Princeton University

Interests

• African American Literature
• American Literature
• The Literature and Culture of the Civil Rights Era
• Prison Literature
• Film and Popular Culture
• Race, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice

Courses Taught

• LIT 202: African American Literature I
• LIT 203: African American Literature II
• LIT 205: Harlem Renaissance
• LIT 206: African American Literary Theory
• LIT 309: Martin Luther King
• ENG 400: Native Sons / Invisible Men
• ENG 400/547: Literature of the Civil Rights Era
• LIT 200: American Literature to 1860
• LIT 165: Topics in Literature
• WRT 120: Effective Writing I

Selected Publications

"Police in Television." The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia. Los Angeles: Sage Reference, 2012: 1767-1774.

"Building Precious Knowledge: An Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Eren Isabel McGinnis." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 36.1 (Spring 2011): 195-217.

"Representing Prison Rape: Race, Masculinity, and Incarceration in Donald Goines's White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 35.3 (Fall 2010): 131-155. Reprinted in Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines, eds. L.H. Stallings and Greg Thomas. Baltimore: Black Classic Press Inprint Editions, 2011: 165-189.

Essays on Sidney Poitier, Eldridge Cleaver, Chester Himes, and James Weldon Johnson for Great Lives from History: African Americans (Salem Press, 2011).

Review of The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940, by Julian B. Carter. College Literature 36.2 (Spring 2009): 152-155.

Review of The Spirituals (PBS documentary on African American Spirituals) (2008)

"Miami Vice." The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2nd Edition. St. James Press, 2013: 552-553.