Contact Information:

221 Willingham Hall

(256) 765-4251

Education:

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

• English 111: First Year Composition I
• English 112: First Year Composition II
• English 434: Language and Gender 

Publications:

• "The Lion (and the Panther) that Roared: Mythical Interlinkages Between The Lion King and Black Panther,” TPA Bulletin, 2021

Conferences:

• "Above and Beyond: The Reimagining of the Female Science Fiction Hero in The Hunger Games, Binti, and Trading in Danger” 2021 Tennessee Philological Association Virtual Conference (2021 TPA Conference). 
• "The Future Is Now: How the Fusion of Rhetoric and Afrofuturism Engenders Empathetic Play” 2020 Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference (2020 NeMLA Conference), Boston, MA. 
•  "The Lion (and the Panther) that Roared: Mythical Interlinkages Between The Lion King and Black Panther” 2020 Tennessee Philological Association (2020 TPA Conference), Cleveland, TN. 
• "American Made: Turn of the Century Advances in Transportation Technology and Edith Wharton's Fiction” 2018 Tennessee Philological Association Conference (2018 TPA Conference), Cookeville, TN. 
• "African American Children and the Civil Rights Movement” 2004 Southern Humanities Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee.