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Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. 1993 (English), Stanford University; B.A. 1987 (English), Columbia University.
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Research Interests: African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; History of the Book
Affiliations: American Antiquarian Society; Modern Language Association; American Studies Association; Society for the Study of Authors, Readers, and Publishers (SHARP); Society for the Study of American Women Authors (SSAWW)
Fellowships/Honors: Columbia College Alumna Achievement Award, Columbia University, 2004; Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction, 2003; Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association, 2003 (Honorable Mention); Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Book History Award,
2003; Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Nonfiction, 2003; John Hope Franklin Center Book Award, 2002; National Humanities Center, National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow, 1998 - 1999; Scholar for the Dream Award, National Council for Teachers of English, 1998; W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research/College of the Holy CrossResearch/Teaching Fellowship, 1995 - 1996; Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, 1994 - 1995.
Selected Works:
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002
"Rereading Literary Legacy: New Considerations of the Nineteenth-Century African-American Reader and Writer," Callaloo 22.2 (September 1999): 477-482.
"Spinning a Fiction of Culture: Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller," in Leslie Marmon Silko: A Collection of Essays, James Thorson and Louise Barnett, eds. (University of New Mexico Press, 1999), 101-120.
"Forgotten Readers: African-American Literary Societies and the American Scene,'" in Print Culture in a Diverse America, James Danky and Wayne Weigand, eds. (University of Illinois Press, 1998), 149-172.
"'Dreaded Eloquence': The Origins and Rise of African-American Literary Societies and Libraries," Harvard Library Bulletin 6.2 (Spring 1996): 32-56.
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