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Associate Professor of English
Research and teaching interests
African-American literature and culture; hip-hop; 19th- and 20th-century American literature
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003
A.M., Harvard University, 1998
B.A., Lewis & Clark College, 1996
Publications
Books
The Yale Anthology of Rap. Yale Univ. Press, forthcoming
Ralph Ellison-in-Progress. Yale Univ. Press, forthcoming
Co-ed. with John Callahan, Three Days Before the Shooting: The Modern Library Edition of Ralph Ellison's Second Novel Manuscripts. Random House, forthcoming
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop. Basic Civitas, 2009
Essays
"Two Meetings in Harlem" (Ralph Ellison in the 1930s). A New Literary History of America. Ed. Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus. Harvard Univ. Press, 2009
Selected honors and awards
Gould Center Research Grant, 2007
Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University, 2006-2007
Non-Resident Fellow, W. E. B. Dubois Institute, Harvard University, 2003-2007
Current projects
AFRO-America: A Cultural Study of Hair and History (book)
Invisible Son: A Memoir