Books

1.  Langston Hughes: The Harlem Renaissance (Reference).  Marshall Cavendish., 2007.
2.  Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideology in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995.  Duke UP, January, 2002.

Papers Published

1. "Riveted to the Wall: Covetous Fathers, Devoted Sons, and the Patriarchal Pieties of Herman Melville and Frederick Douglass." Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation  (forthcoming).
2. "How a Man Was Made a Slave: Contraband, Chiasmus and the Failure of Visual Abolitionism." ELN: English Language Notes. Special Issue on Race and Photography 44:2 (Fall/ Winter 2006): 175-180.
3. "Politics, Publicness and the Price of the Ticket: James Baldwin and the Public Sphere" ("Prospects for the Study of James Baldwin")." Prospects for the Study of American Literature  (in press).
4. "I AM a Man: Latent Doubt, Public Protest and the Anxious Construction of Black American Manhood." Schomburg Studies in the Black Experience: Ideology, Identity and Assumptions  (2007): 133-178.
5. "What Nellie Knew: For Nellie McKay (in memoriam)." African American Review 40:1 (Spring, Spring, 2006): 33-35.
6. "Our Tsunami: Race, Religion and Mourning in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana." Transforming Anthropology 14:1 (2006): 25-27.

Book Reviews

1.  "Review of Veronique Tadjo's As the Crow Flies". Callaloo 29:2 (2006): 9-10.
2.  "Review of Theophus Smith's Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations in Black America". American Literature 66:1 (1995): 410-11.