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RESEARCH

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Rhetoric and Composition

American Africanism

African American and African Diaspora

Race and Gender Studies

Cultural Studies

Digital Humanities

Religion and Theology

Literary Modernism

Literary Postmodernism

Literary Postcolonialism

Gender Roles

Comparative Literature

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

History of the Novel

Manuscript Studies

Pedagogy

Digital Cultural Heritage

Digital and Public Humanities

Education and Homelessness

Technology and Marginalized Communities

Geo VR and Google Earth Education

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RACE

Black Vernacular in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Freedom Songs: Timeless Anthems for Equality and Change

Civilized Savages:

Racist Underpinnings of Colonialism

in Heart of Darkness and “The Man Who Would Be King” 

GENDER

The Stranger and The Lover:

A Female Manifestation of the Existential Modern Man

Gender Issues in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Jordan Baker and Beneatha Younger: 

An Exploration of Gender Roles and Representation in American Literature

Measure for Measure and All’s Well That Ends Well: 

Reinforcing Gender Roles Through Subversion 

RELIGION

Christianity and Religion as Characterized in Frederick Douglass’s Slave Narrative

King Lear's Cordialia as a Christ-Like Figure

MODERNISM

Defining Modernism:

An Exploration of the Defining Characteristic

in Heart of Darkness and “An Image of Africa”

Modernism and Social Order

RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION

Irony in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

The Literary Merits of Chick Lit: A Critical Discourse Analysis

BLOGS POSTS AND JOURNAL ENTRIES

Black Women and Gender Identity

Du Bois and Dunbar: Blackness in America

Black Humanity and the Harlem Renaissance

Black Womanhood

Race, Gender, and the American Dream

Gender and Power in Duras' The Lover

Bless and Blast: A Modern Interpretation

Ras in Invisible Man

Lady Chatterley, Nietzsche, and Literary Decadence

Absurdism and Existentialism: Critical Responses to French Colonial Rule

Roupenian’s “Cat Person”: Gender, Sexuality, and Power

Gender Roles and Religion in Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice

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