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Selected Academic Publications and Presentations

Nov. 2019      Invited Panelist (speaking on Indigenous Midwestern authors) "Unsettling Race and Region,                                       Building Alter- Narratives of the Midwest.”

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  • Mid-American Studies Association Roundtable. American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

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May 2018     “‘Were you cured?’: Latency, Nationalism, and Sovereignty in Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves.”

  • Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States Conference in Las Vegas, NV.

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April 2018   Pluralism and Pathology in Afro- and Native American Fiction.

  • Dissertation. Brown Digital Repository. Providence, RI.

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June 2015    “‘The slack string is just a slack string’: Neoformalist Networks in The White Boy Shuffle.”

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April 2014   “‘That Persistent Mind-Body Problem’: Timeless Bodies of Pluralism in Colson Whitehead’s Novels.”

  • Paper presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Harrisburg, PA.

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June 2012    “The ‘blood magic’ of Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting.”

  • Paper presented at the Futures of American Studies Institute in Hanover, NH.

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Awards and Grants

2021                   Center for the Study of American Democracy Course Enhancement Grant

2020                   Faculty Research Grant; Kenyon College (deferred until 2021)

2018                   Community-Engaged Faculty Fellowship; Hobart and William Smith Colleges

2015-16             Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Graduate Fellowship; Brown University

2010-13             Brown University Dissertation Fellowship; Brown University

2010-13             Mellon Graduate Workshop Grants; Brown University

2009-10             Brown University Teaching Fellowship; Brown University 

2008-09             Brown University Fellowship; Brown University 

2007-08             Joseph and Mary Yelda Scholarship; Wayne State University

2007-08            Mark and Linee Diem Scholarship; Wayne State University

2006-07            Abraham Borman Scholarship; Wayne State University

2005-06            Dustin Rose Memorial Scholarship; Wayne State University

2003-05            Michigan Merit Award; State of Michigan

2003-05            Robert C. Byrd Scholarship; State of Michigan

2003-07            Wayne State University Presidential Scholarship; Wayne State University

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