Criticism & Essays
Film + Art Reviews:
“Lift Every Voice,” review of: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, New York Review of Architecture, Issue #42, September / October 2024.
“Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley,” Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 137, No. 544, Spring 2024.
“Blue Velvet: Sophie Abramowitz on George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Artforum, 21 December 2020.
Book Reviews:
“Am I Blue?: Black Music and White Male Self-Construction,” Expanded Review Essay of Blind Joe Death's America: John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent by George Henderson and Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music by Adam Gussow Journal of Popular Music Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1, September 2022.
Essays (Culture + History):
“‘Trained and Taught This Song By Zora Hurston’: Dramatic Ethnography and Zora Neale Hurston’s The Great Day,” American Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 4, December 2020.
“Take Them Back Home: Johnny Shines, Mable Hillery, and the Revival Stage,” Dig! Americana, May 2020. With David Beal, Parker Fishel.
“Langston Hughes: Experimental Folklorist,” Hidden Folklorists Series, Library of Congress, October 2018.
“Tools of Displacement: How Charlottesville’s Confederate statues helped decimate the city’s historically successful black communities,” Slate, June 2017. With Eva Latterner, Gillet Rosenblith.
Essays (Research + Libraries):
“Engaging the Anthology: Pedagogical Approaches to Black Music History in Collections and Compilations,” Journal of Music History Pedagogy, Vol 14, No. 2, December 2024. With Dr. Laura Stokes.
“Approaching Site Models,” Digital Scholarship Resources for Courses LibGuide, Brown University Library, March 2022. With Elli Mylonas.
“Citations & Copyright in Digital Research & Teaching,” The Writing and Rhetoric Program at the University of Virginia, June 2020.
& more:
Reflection on 2024
“Lift Every Voice,” review of: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, New York Review of Architecture, Issue #42, September / October 2024.
“Thumbs Up for Mother Universe: Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley,” Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 137, No. 544, Spring 2024.
“Blue Velvet: Sophie Abramowitz on George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Artforum, 21 December 2020.
Book Reviews:
“Am I Blue?: Black Music and White Male Self-Construction,” Expanded Review Essay of Blind Joe Death's America: John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent by George Henderson and Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music by Adam Gussow Journal of Popular Music Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1, September 2022.
Essays (Culture + History):
“‘Trained and Taught This Song By Zora Hurston’: Dramatic Ethnography and Zora Neale Hurston’s The Great Day,” American Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 4, December 2020.
“Take Them Back Home: Johnny Shines, Mable Hillery, and the Revival Stage,” Dig! Americana, May 2020. With David Beal, Parker Fishel.
“Langston Hughes: Experimental Folklorist,” Hidden Folklorists Series, Library of Congress, October 2018.
“Tools of Displacement: How Charlottesville’s Confederate statues helped decimate the city’s historically successful black communities,” Slate, June 2017. With Eva Latterner, Gillet Rosenblith.
Essays (Research + Libraries):
“Engaging the Anthology: Pedagogical Approaches to Black Music History in Collections and Compilations,” Journal of Music History Pedagogy, Vol 14, No. 2, December 2024. With Dr. Laura Stokes.
“Approaching Site Models,” Digital Scholarship Resources for Courses LibGuide, Brown University Library, March 2022. With Elli Mylonas.
“Citations & Copyright in Digital Research & Teaching,” The Writing and Rhetoric Program at the University of Virginia, June 2020.
& more:
Reflection on 2024