the Scholar

My ​​research and teaching focus on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. My other interests include identity and representation, critical pleasure studies, and contemporary Black life.

  • Women's Art Journal, Spring/Summer 2024

    “Committed to Survival: The Womanist Visions of Varnette P. Honeywood and Annie F. Lee”

    (peer-reviewed)

  • The Art Bulletin, Dec 2023

    “Tina M. Campt: A Black Gaze and Nicholas Mirzoeff: White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness

  • Art Journal, Fall 2023

    “Repose: Black Nightmares, Black Dreams”

    (peer-reviewed)

  • A Picture Gallery of the Soul, 2022

    “A Visual Politics of Black Pleasure”

    (exhibition catalogue essay)

  • Feminist Media Histories, Summer 2018

    “And They Started Sayin’ ‘Black Power!”

    (photo essay)

  • Oxford African American Studies Center

  • African American National Biography

    Multiple entries

  • Identity Theory, 2005