Education: B.A., Johnson C. Smith University. M.A., North Carolina State ; Ph.D., Michigan State
Teaching and Research Interests: African diaspora studies and Women's Studies
Book: The Difference Place Makes: Gender Ethnicity and Diaspora Identity; Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003
Selected Essays: "The Body [as] Politic in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust." African American Review (2004); "Colored Readings; or, Interpretation and the Raciogendered Body" Reading Sites: Social Difference and Reader Response. Eds Patrocinio Schweickart and Elizabeth Flynn. Chicago: MLA, 2004; "Hearing Reading and Being Read by Beloved," NWSA Journal (1998)
Awards: Southern Regional Educational Board Faculty Mentor of the Year, 1997.

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