Associate Professor, American Studies
Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
American art and visual culture, photography and race/racial difference, the Harlem/Negro Renaissance and WPA art; satire, caricature, stereotype, and appropriation in art and visual culture
Archibald Motley, Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art, University of Illinois Press, September 2017.
Beholding Christ and Christianity in African-American Art, edited by James Romaine and Phoebe Wolfskill (anthology manuscript), Pennsylvania State Press, September 2017.
“‘Laugh[ing] at Our Collective Selves:’ Stereotype and Satire in the Work of Joyce J. Scott”
“Joyce J. Scott’s Dissolving Memorial to Harriet Tubman”
“Narratives of Black Atlanta in Emma Amos’s Odyssey (1988)”
“Photographic Appropriation in the Early Work of Romare Bearden”
“Blackness and Non-Iconicity in FSA Photography”
Photography, Painting, and the Early Twentieth-Century Black Subject (book manuscript)
“Emma Amos’s Foundations in London” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2022, no. 50 (May 2022): 116-131.
“Photographic Disruption in the Work of Emma Amos” in Shawnya L. Harris, ed., Emma Amos: Color Odyssey (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, 2021), 63-73.
“‘I Wish to Reveal’: A Conversation with Joyce J. Scott,” online exhibition catalogue, “Fragments of a Crucifixion,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, May 2019
“The Enduring Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance” in Edward Chambers, ed., Routledge Companion to African American Art (New York: Routledge, 2019), 27-40.
“Love and Theft in the Art of Emma Amos,” Archives of American Art Journal 55, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 46-65.
“Caricature and the New Negro in the Work of Archibald Motley, Jr. and Palmer Hayden” Art Bulletin 91, no. 3 (September 2009): 343-365.
“‘You Must be Able to Laugh at Yourself:’ Reading Racial Caricature in the Work of Archibald Motley, Jr. and his Successors” in Dana Williams, ed.,
Black Humor, Irony, and Satire: Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, chapter 7.
Book review: Lisa Farrington, African American Art: A Visual and Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 2016), caa.reviews.
Book review: Represent: 200 Years of African American Art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Yale University Press, 2014, caa.reviews, February 2017.
Book review: Eugenie Tsai, ed., Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, exhibition catalogue. New York: Prestel, 2015. Reviewed for caa.reviews, fall 2015.
Book review: Natalie A. Mault, ed. The Visual Blues, exhibition catalogue. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Museum of Art, 2014. Reviewed for caa.reviews, fall 2015.
Exhibition review: “In Review: Ashe to Amen” SEEN Journal XIV, no. 1 (2014): 25.
Book review: Patricia Hills, Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA), spring 2011.
Entries on Alison Saar, Joyce Scott, Florian Jenkins, and Jacob Lawrence in Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum. Exhibition catalogue. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum, 2009. Alison Saar entry reproduced in In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum, 2014.
Entries on Judy Chicago, George Grosz, Gabrielle Münter, David Park, Mark Rothko and Yves Tanguy in Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Selected Works. Urbana, IL The Board of Trustee of the University of Illinois, 2008.
Curated exhibition and authored catalogue: Jamming with the Man: Allen Stringfellow, A Retrospective. Exhibition catalogue. Urbana, IL: Krannert Art Museum, 2004.
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