books

To Be Loved by Death: Adapting Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles (ed.), in prep.

Demystifying Mystic Falls: Essays on Race and Racism in The Vampire Diaries Universe (ed.), forthcoming.

Mary Shelley’s Mathilda (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2025. Also in audiobook.

Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism, SUNY Press, 2021.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Books Program, a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience.

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ON VAMPIRES

“Black Vampires and Antiblackness: New and Old Histories of White Futurity,” The Palgrave Handbook of Monsters and Monstrous Bodies,” forthcoming.

“TVDU’s Moves to Innocence: Confluences of Settler Colonialism, Antiblackness, and Antisemitism in The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies,” Demystifying Mystic Falls, forthcoming.

“Whitewashing the AfroAsian Vampire: Anti-Blackness and Filipino Erasure in The Originals,” Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture, 2024.

“Afropessimism, Queer Negativity, and the Limits of Romanticism,” The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race, 2024.

“Bonnie Bennett, Final Girl,” Black Witches and Queer Ghosts: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials, 2024.

“Mystic Falls in Covington, GA: Gender, Race, and Fandom in The Vampire Diaries Franchise,” The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire, 2023.

ON pedagogy, research methods, and archives

“Loving Blackness Across Arts and Sciences,” Early American Literature 57, no. 3 (2022): 827-834. With Michelle S. Hite.

“The Uses and Limits of Archives in Decolonial Curricula,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 49 (2020): 147-151.

“Introduction: New Directions in Transatlantic Romanticisms,” Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations 23, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 5-19. With Joel Pace.

“Sarah Wesley, British Methodism, and the Feminist Question, Again,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 46, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 223-237.

ON suicide

“The Interracial Marriage Plot: Suicide and the Politics of Blood in Romantic-Era Women’s Fiction.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 51, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 1-18.

“Boundaries Between Things Misnamed: Social Death and Radical (Non-) Existence in Frederick Douglass and Lord Byron,” European Romantic Review 29, no. 4 (2018): 473-484.

“Habeas Corpus and the Politics of Freedom: Slavery and Romantic Suicide,” Essays in Romanticism 22, no. 1 (2015): 21-33.

“‘Unhallowed arts’: Frankenstein and the Poetics of Suicide,” European Romantic Review 26, no. 2 (February 2015): 241-260.