Selected Writing


Psychology, Torture, Networks: Or, Structure as the Subject of Human Rights.” Writing Beyond the State: Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literature and Culture

The Poisoning of Flint and the Moral Economy of Human Rights.” With K.M. Ferebee and Wendy S. Hesford. Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism


Rethinking Torture’s Dark Chamber.Peace Review: Journal of Social Justice


Race in Feminism: Critiques of Bodily Self-Determination in Ida B. Wells and Anna Julia Cooper.” Trotter Review: Black Culture, Race and Race Relations


Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America: Reading Race in Victoria Woodhull, Frances Willard, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells.Genders


Poisonous Roots and the New World Blues: Rereading Seventies Nation and Narration in Alex Haley and Gayl Jones.” Narrative

“Reproductive Health, Race and Technology: Political Fictions and Black Feminist Critiques,1970s-1990s.” SAGE: Race Relations


Building on a Radical Foundation: Theologian Howard Thurman’s Work Continues.Trotter Review: Black Culture, Race and Race Relations


“Sharp Practice.” Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance and Writing.


Oroonoko’s Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourse Studies in the Americas.” With Daniel Cooper Alarcón. American Literature