Education

B.A. 1995, Spelman College
M.A. 2007, Georgia State University
Ph.D 2019, Georgia State University 

Academic Summary

 

Select Publications

“The Womanist Speculative Archetype in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s ‘Evidence.’” Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction. Eds. Lisa Yaszek, Sonja Fritzsche, Keren Omry, Wendy Gay Pearson. Routledge, 2023.

“Zami as a Speculative Womanist Guide to Self Actualization in Octavia Butler’s Dawn.” New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers. Ed. LaToya Jefferson-James, Ph.D. Lexington Books, 2022.

“Lieutenant Nyota Uhura: A Brief Remembrance.” Aunt Chloe, 2022.

“The Oankali Approach to Remembering in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood.” College Language Association Journal, Special Issue on Afrofuturism, 2022.

“‘Moving Against the Speed of Time.’ Diana Adesola Mafe. Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV.” Extrapolation 61(3):352, 2020.