Below is an abridged list of publications and presentations. My full CV has a complete and up-to-date list of publications, presentations, and service.

PUBLICATIONS:

Journal Articles:

“Un-Bordering the Species: Plantationocene Counter-Epistemologies in Sleep Dealer and Maquilapolis,” Global South, vol. 16, no. 2, 2023, pp. 89–113.

Book Chapters:

“Rewriting Black Power: Incarceration, Heteropatriarchy, and Queer Consciousness in George Jackson and Angela Y. Davis,” The Living Legacy of African American Studies: Its Past, Present, and Future(s), eds. Adria Y. Goldman, LaRonda Sanders-Senu, and Laura Wilson, forthcoming from University of Georgia Press.

Professional Interviews:

“10 Years of ESO: A Roundtable with the Founding Executive Council” (with Laura Wilson), Mississippi Quarterly, forthcoming in August 2026.

Bibliographies:

“Emerging Scholarship in Southern Studies (2023–2025)” (with Savannah DiGregorio and Laura Wilson), Mississippi Quarterly, forthcoming in August 2026.

Book Reviews:

Matthew Omelsky, Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond (2023), Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 71, no. 3, forthcoming in Fall 2026.

Rachel Jane Carroll, For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics (2024), MELUS, vol. 50, no. 1, 2025, pp. 213–215.

Flores-Silva, Dolores and Cartwright, Keith, Gulf Gothic: Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona’s Undead Voices (2023), Global South, vol. 17, no.1, 2024, pp. 146–148.

Dann Luna, Ilana, Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms From Literature to Film (2018), ASAP/J, 29 September 2022.

PRESENTATIONS:

Conference Papers

“Mutated Realisms and the Pesticide South.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Nashville, TN, 28 March 2026.

“Anti-Time and Ancestral Memory in Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother,” NEMLA, Pittsburgh, PA, 5 March 2026.

“Community Conversations: Connecting Writing Center Professional Development and National Writing Project Social Practices,” Transition to Writing Symposium, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 3 October 2025.

“Speculative Realist Anthropocenes in Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus and Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate,” Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 26 July 2025.

“‘daño of the fields’: Expendability and Social Death in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus,” Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS), Oxford, MS, June 4, 2025.

“Passages and Impasses for Black-Indigenous Solidarity in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,” Research Colloquium. University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 28 March 2025.

“National Writing Project Assumptions and Writing Center Professional Development,” Mississippi Writing Center Association, Jackson, MS, 22 March 2025.

“Tracing a Desert South through Sergio Troncoso’s Wicked Patch of Dust,” SAMLA 95: “(In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies,” Atlanta, GA, 11 November 2023.

“Un-Bordering the Species: Plantationocene Counter-Epistemologies in Sleep Dealer and Maquilapolis,” Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 28 July 2023.

“Queer Worldmaking in Oxford, MS Roundtable.” Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Conference. University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 28 July, 2023.

“Fossil Futures, Plantation Afterlives: Wasteification, Social Death, and Petroculture in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus,” 5th Biennial Latinx Literary Theory & Criticism Conference, John Jay College, New York, New York, 7 April 2023.

“Deconstructing Heterosexuality and Recovering Sexual Alterity in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple,” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Atlanta, GA, 26 June, 2022.

“Through the Wide-Angle Lens: A New Optics for 21st Century Southern Studies,” Social Space in Humanities Scholarship: A Symposium, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 4 December 2022.

“Latinidad and Southern Studies: Current Impasses and Possible Futures.” Social Space in Humanities Scholarship: A Symposium, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 4 December 2022.

“The Queer South: Graduate Seminar Roundtable.” University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 26 February 2021.

“Passing (It) On: Survivance and Decolonization of the Body in Memorias de Andrés Chiliquinga.” 4th Biennial Latinx Literary Theory & Criticism Conference, John Jay College, New York, New York, 26 April 2017.