Scholarship

*Pieces that were either peer reviewed, research based, written with academic audiences in mind and/or featured in academic journals/books*

Dissertation, 2022: “When Black Girls Fly: An Exploration of Black Girls’ Multimedia Fantasy Narratives as Sites of Legacy, Lineage and Creative Freedom”

Thesis, 2018: “Black Capes, White Spies: An Exploration of Visual Black Identity, Evolving Heroism and ‘Passing’ in Marvel’s Black Panther Comics and Mat Johnson’s Graphic Novel, Incognegro”

2023

“Flying Toward a Twenty-First Century Aesthetics of Technomagic Girlhood,” Vault of Culture, August 9, 2023

Grace McGowan & Ravynn K. Stringfield, “A Duet With History: Lizzo and James Madison’s Crystal Flute,” Nursing Clio, March 29, 2023

2022

“Breaking and (Re)Making,” reprinted from Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities in Making Sense of Digital Humanities [open access from Michigan State University Libraries]

“#BlackScholarJoy: The Labor, Resistance and Joy Practices of Black Women Graduate Students,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 16.3

2021

“Remix a Myth & Sing a Black Girl’s Song,” FLOW Journal, October 18, 2021

“Dreaming Up a Digital Class for Magical Black Girls: A Reflection on the Place of Black Girls in American Studies Scholarship and Pedagogy,” Ampersand: An American Studies Journal, September 2021

“Breaking and (Re)Making,” in Dorothy Kim and Adeline Koh ed. Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities [open access from Punctum Books]*

*Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities won the 2022 American Studies Association Digital Humanities Book Prize.

“How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy,” Catapult

Book Review: Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by André Brock, Jr., Media Industries, vol. 7, no. 2

2020

“Wakanda Forever,” (a tribute to Chadwick Boseman) in Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 8, no. 2

“How America’s Second Oldest University is Reckoning with its History of Slavery,” Shondaland

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