Presentation at Undergraduate Humanities Conference: Bodies and Technology.
I presented my paper “The Other Mother: Assessing Edwidge Danticat’s “New York Day Women” in the Light of Hortense J. Spillers’ “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” at the 2020 Undergraduate Humanities Conference on May 8th, 2020. This paper assesses...
Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the most canonical figures of Harlem Renaissance studies, whose respective novels and portraits have been explored extensively, if separately, by scholars. Both Larsen's 1929 novel Passing and VanDerZee's studio portraiture of the 1920s and 1930s have been read in terms...
Online fanfiction communities have received attention for providing spaces of creativity and individual empowerment. Yet as critics have sought to establish fanfiction as a worthy object of study, many have not grappled with the ways that fanfictions not only trouble, but also reinforce various discourses and ideas of gender and...