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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.”
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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.
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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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Peer Reviewed article published in LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Vol. 26, no. 2, 2015. Pp. 106-127.
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April 2014 “‘That Persistent Mind-Body Problem’: Timeless Bodies of Pluralism in Colson Whitehead’s Novels.”
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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.”
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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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