FICTION
- “She Should Have Been Prettier.” Novel Excerpt. Shelf Unbound pp. 66–67.
- “This was the First.” Novel Excerpt. The Collagist
- “Only in America.” Tampa Review
- “Aunty Stays.” Passages North
- “The Wife.” Kenyon Review.org
- “An Arranged Honeymoon.” Kenyon Review
- “My Brother Told Me.” Reverie: Midwest African American Literature
- “A House with No Man.” Mosaic
- “An Erect Giant.” The Tidal Basin Review
- “The Walk of an Empty Woman.” Cream City Review
SCHOLARLY-CRITICAL
- “‘White Man’s Magic’: A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass, Afropolitanism, and (Post)Racial Anxieties.” Afropolitan Literature as World Literature. Ed. James Hodapp. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. (Forthcoming Jan 2020).
- “Are We All Feminists? The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, vol. 16, no. 1, 2018, pp. 163–83.
- “Humor as Deconstructive Apparatus in Bernardine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots.” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. Special Issue: Unchaining Selves: The Power of the Neo-Slave Narrative Genre. vol. 40, no. 2, spring 2017.
- “The Middleman Speaks: Race, Citizenship, and Labor in The Beautiful Things that Heaven
Bears.” Converging Identities: Blackness in the Modern African Diaspora. Eds. Julius O. Adekunle and Hettie Williams. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press. 2013. 83-93. - “Passing for What?: The Marrow of Tradition’s Minstrel Critique of the Unlawfulness of Law.” Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First African American Writer. Eds. David Garrett Izzo and Maria Orban. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2009. 188-201.
- “Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Africana Womanist Vision of Environmental Justice.” 2008. James A. Rawley Conference in the Humanities: Imagining Communities: People, Places, Meanings.
