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I am an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Media at the University of Florida. I earned my BA and PhD from Howard University and an MA in English and American Literature from Mills College. I am a budding Toni Morrison scholar who roots her scholarship and pedagogy in the literary showcase of Black interiority in African American Literature and the literatures that ornament the Black Diaspora as a whole.

My scholarly interests include critical race theory, race/racism, critical gender studies (as it pertains to the nuance blackness affords both concept and practice), Black popular culture, Carceral Studies, Afro-futurism, and Speculative Fiction. But, like all scholars, my interests are ever-evolving but forever rooted in the study of Blackness and in pursuit of a liberation brought to life by the humanities.

At the crux of my studies is Afrodemia…

Afrodemia: a concept developed to reference the interior institution that African American literature creates intrinsically.

As an Afrodemic, I reimagine the world beyond the limits of western intellection and toward the humanist discourse of African American and Black diasporic literature.