Talks

Recent and forthcoming talks include:

Roundtable: ‘The New Negro at 100’, Modernist Studies Association Conference (October 2025)

‘On Not Being Let In: Sterling Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South and Joel Chandler Harris’, Southern Studies Forum (June 2025)

‘Finding the Black Literary Magazine in the South’, Black Periodicals and Space (May 2025)

‘Lillian Smith’s South Today and the Texture of Southern Readers’, St. George Tucker Society Fall Workshop (October 30th 2024)

‘The Serial South: Creating Controversy at Contempo Magazine’, Cardiff MA Literature Conference (Keynote Speaker) (June 2024)

‘Joyce Goes Down South for a Day’, British Association for Modernist Studies (June 2024)

‘Sometimes Southern: The Case of Contempo Magazine’, Place and the Periodical’ (June 2024)

‘Lillian Smith, South Today, and Magazine Networks’, Radical Print Cultures in the US South (February 2024)

I particularly welcome invitations to present work from my new research project on the Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Tour,