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Welcome to my homepage.
The belief
that literacy is
fundamental
to slaves'
empowerment
is so widely
held that
to question
the assumption,
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This page will tell you more about my research, my publications, and my current projects. Please feel free to click around. The hyperlinked items will take you to further information. If you find any dead ends, please let me know.
I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. I teach primarily undergraduate courses in pre-1865 American Literature, and courses in Literary Theory. I also teach a specialized course called Narratives of Slavery and graduate seminars on Frederick Douglass and slave narratives.
My most recent publications include, "Slave Narratives and the Rhetoric of Author Portraiture," and an article about black collectibles, titled "Heritage or Hate? Collecting Black Memorabilia." I've also published research on autobiography theory and the historical discourses of literacy studies. My scholarly interests lie primarily in the autobiographies of fugitive slaves, known as slave narratives, many of which are now available online through the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's "Documenting the American South" website.
or challenge the paradigm,
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Currently I'm working on a book manuscript whose five core chapters include a chapter that focuses upon Frederick Douglass, literacy, and slavery, slave women and literacy, the pedagogical
practices of antebellum literacy education, and my research on Brazilian slave literacy.
I am also the director of two undergraduate honors theses, and I have directed six master's theses for my students. I am deeply committed to my students, and I love my work. Sometimes I feel like the luckiest person in the world: I get to read, write, and tell people about it--and I do it for a living. It doesn't get any better than this.
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This page was last modified on: November 22, 2008.