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Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, Ph.D.

[email protected]  (work) [email protected] (personal)

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
2024-Present   Hampton University.  Member. University’s Long Range Planning Program Review Committee.
2024-Present   Hampton University.  Member.  University Academic Personnel Committee (Grievances/Tenure & Promotion).
2023-2027      College Board.  Member.  College Level Examination Program (CLEP) Composition Development Committee.
2025           Educational Testing Services.  Question Leader.  Advanced Placement (AP) African-American Studies.
2024           Educational Testing Services.   Early Table Leader.  AP African-American Studies.
2020-2022      Hampton University.  Member.  School of Liberal Arts and Education (SLAE) Tenure & Promotion Committee.
2019-Present   Hampton University.  Certifying Campus Advisor.  Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
2019-Present   Hampton University.  Member. SLAE. Writing Across Curriculum (WAC) Committee.
2018-Present   Hampton University.  Co-Chair. University’s Academic Catalog Committee.
2019-2020      Hampton University.  Member.  English & Foreign Languages (EFL)  Program Review Committee
2015-2020      Hampton University. Pre-text Coordinator. ETS-AP English Literature/Language.
2018-2020      Hampton University.  Campus Coordinator.  UNCF/Mellon Programs.
2018-2019      Hampton University.  Coordinator.  University Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC).
2018-2019      Hampton University.  Co-Coordinator.  UNCF/Mellon Teaching and Learning Institute.
2016-2017      Hampton University.  Interim Chair. Department of English and Foreign Languages (EFL).
2015-2016      Hampton University.  Chair.  EFL Scholarship, Research, and Grants Committee.
2015-2016      Hampton University. Chair.  EFL Hiring Committee.
2010-2011      Hampton University.  Co-Coordinator.  UNCF/Mellon Teaching and Learning Institute.
2009-2011      Hampton University.  Chair, University Advisory Committee on Library and Informational Services.
2007-2008      Germantown Academy.  Assistant Diversity Coordinator.
 

PRESTIGIOUS FELLOWSHIPS:
August 2023-May 2024       UNCF/Mellon Faculty Residency-Release Time Award;
September-December 2023    UNCF/Mellon National Humanities Center (NHC) Residential Fellowship 2023-2024;
September 2022-May 2023    Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. NHC Fellowship 2022-2023;
August-December 2020       UNCF/Mellon Faculty Residency-Release Time Award;
May-August 2016            UNCF/Mellon Faculty Residency Fellowship-Summer Research at NYC-Schomburg Center;
June-July 2011             National Humanities Center Summer Institutes in Literary Studies Fellow;
June 2009                  Educational Testing Services (ETS) Visiting Scholar—declined;
August 2003-July 2004      Marquette University Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship—declined.


HONORS AND AWARDS:
*Marquis-NY Who’s Who (December 2024);
*Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls:  Watch It!  Showcased on Rowman & Littlefield’s  Spotlight on Lexington Books for Women’s History Month (March 2024);    
*Podcasting the Humanities:  Creating Digital Stories for the Public, NHC Virtual Institute for College/University     (June 2023);
*Introduction to Digital Humanities Scholars Programs-History of Black Writing, University of Kansas (March-August     2023);
*Hampton University Sabbatical Leave of Absence (August 2022-December 2023);
*University of Richmond Toqueville Seminar Faculty Member (June 2012-May 2013);
*Nominated Affiliated Member-Madison Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals (September 2011);
*Runner-up Service Award to the Advisor and Members of the Alpha Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta (March 2009);
*Hampton University Honor Society of the Year-Alpha Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta (March 2009 & March 2010);
*Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.  9th Edition 2004-2005 (May 2005);
*Hope College Provost’s Office and office Multicultural Life Recognition Award (April 2005);
*Hope College Preparing Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship (Spring 2001).


GUEST SPEAKER/BOOK TOURS:
October 2024    “Writing as Praxis…and Let’s Not Forget the Inspiration and Fun.”--Plenary Speaker.  UNCF/Mellon First
                 Book Institute, Atlanta, GA; 
https://uncfmellon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-October-UNCF-Mellon-First-Book-Flyer.pdf
August 2024     “Promoting and Applying for an HBCU Residential Fellowship.” Webinar--Guest Speaker, National
                Humanities Center, Durham, NC—Virtual; https://youtu.be/oJr78W8DsOw?si=l4XoWCk7wS73l0Eo [youtu.be]
March 2024      Tangled Roots-Keynote Address, “Nnedi Okorafor’s Sheroes and Their Extra-Ordinatry, Dreaded Hair.”--
               
Suffolk Center for the Arts, Suffolk, VA; 
https://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2024/03/21/tangled-roots-an-exploration-into-diversity-culture-and-identity/
February 2024   “Exploring Women/Girls of African-Descent in 20th/21st Century Speculative Fiction.”--Humanties in                      Class Webinar Series.  National Humanities Center, Durham, NC/VIRTUAL; https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-material/exploring-women-and-girls-of-african-descent-in-twentieth-and-twenty-first-century-speculative-fiction/
November 2023   “MOVIE TALKS-The Little Mermaid”--Hampton City Public Library, Hampton, VA;
October 2023    “Sisterhood in the Worlds of Black SF - Unique, Endearing, and Powerful Bonds Among Women”--National                    Humanities Center Fellows Workshop, Durham, NC;
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/karima-k-jeffrey-legette-2022-23/
October 2023    “Is She Going or Has She Been Where No One Has Gone Before?!?!?”--Annual Department of African,
                 African-American, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Durham,                   NC;  https://aaad.unc.edu/event/aaad-colloquium-series-speaker-dr-karima-jeffrey/
October 2023    “Black Women and Girls in Speculative Fiction: Characters, Texts, and Creators”--Academics at Work,                     Hampton University, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Hampton, VA/VIRTUAL;
September 2023   “Teen Docent Workshop 1”--Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH/VIRTUAL;
August 2023      “MOVIE TALKS-Fast Color”--Hampton City Public Library, Hampton, VA;  https://www.hampton.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=48942
June 2023        “MOVIE TALKS-A Wrinkle in Time”--Hampton City Public Library, Hampton, Va;  https://allevents.in/hampton/movie-talks-a-wrinkle-in-time-with-dr-karima-jeffrey-legette/10000633292794797
April 2023       “Let’s Chop It Up! with Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette”--Claflin University, Claflin, SC/VIRTUAL 
February 2023    “Black to the Future?  No, the Future is Black”--Shaw University, Raleigh, NC;
November 2022    “The Black Female Superhero:  Does She Truly Reign?”--National Humanities Center Fellow’s Workshop,                      Durham, NC (via ZOOM);
April 2020       “Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance.”--Betty and William Jones Humanities Speaker Series, Norfolk                        Collegiate, Norfolk, VA (cancelled due to COVID);
February 2020    “Introduction to Caribbean Literature.”--Cultural Diversity Day, Barron Elementary School, Hampton,                      VA;


EDUCATION:
2024-Present Hampton University, Hampton, VA.  Master of Divinity. (in progress)

1998-2007    Howard University, Washington, D.C.  Doctorate in English Literature. 
             Specialization:  African-American, Caribbean, 20TH-Century British Literatures and Postcolonial Theory.
             Dissertation:  “Littoral Figures and the Language of the Sea:  A Postcolonial Examination of the
             Protagonists in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and In the Castle of My Skin.”

1996-1999    Lehman College, Bronx, N.Y.  Master of Arts degree in English Literature.
             Thesis:  “Zora Neale Hurston’s Contributions to Black American Theater, 1920-1940.” 

1990-1994    Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA.   Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors. 
             Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
             Major:  English Literature.  Minor:  Education.  Concentration:  Black Studies.
             Thesis:  “A History of Black American Dance Theatre and Performance.”


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2024-Present         Hampton University Online.  Course Developer.  Division of Religious Studies.
2008-Present         Hampton University.  Tenured Associate Professor.  Department of English and Foreign Languages.
2007-2008            Germantown Academy.  Upper School English Teacher.
2003-2007            Hope College.  Visiting Professor & Assistant Professor.  Department of English. 
2001-2003            Hope College.  Preparing Future Faculty (P.F.F.) Teaching Fellow.  Department of English.
1999-2001            Howard University. Teaching Assistant/Adjunct Lecturer.  College of Arts and Sciences.
1996-1998            Lehman College.  Adjunct Lecturer.  Department of English.
1994-1996            The Baldwin School.  Upper School and Middle School English Teacher.


COURSE OFFERING DESCRIPTIONS:
Survey of the Old/New Testament - Relating Elements of Style (ex., character, setting, plot, theme, point of view) to a theological grounding in the study of The Bible. 
The Black Superhero - Entails the chronicling of heroes of African-descent in USA, with particular attention to     
     characters written, illustrated, directed, and/or produced by women of African-descent. 
Contemporary Themes in African-American Literature & Film - Attention to female protagonists of African-descent in         select moving images with the study of literature by Black Women writers of SF.
African-American Literature - Survey and Topics Courses in Contemporary Themes, Select Authors, and Playwrights.
Caribbean Literature and Film - Introductory Survey course with sampling of texts that have been adapted to film.
African Writers II - Survey Course that begins in the 20th Century.
Ethnic Literature I/II - Attention to how “race” is defined or negated in Multicultural American Literature.
American Literature I/II - Topics/themes in canonical American literary studies.
The Bible as Literature - Using “Elements of Style” (ex., plot, point of view, setting) to read scripture in The Bible.
Senior Seminar - Capstone thesis for majors, optimizing a range approaches (ex., paper,portfolio, lesson plans).
First Year Writing/Composition I/II - Preliminary survey courses in rhetoric, research, argument, and analysis.
Traditional Grammar - Introduction to common grammar rules, preparing students to best edit/proofread texts.
Independent Studies - Specialized courses, particularly advanced topics for Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows.


PUBLICATIONS:   
Book Projects:
Black Girls Write/Right The Future:  Speculative Fiction by or about Black Women and Girls. TBD.            Manuscript
“BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION.” Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement.  2nd Edition               Book-Entry in progress
    Ed. Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis.  Rowman and Littlefield, 2025/26.
“‘Gathering the Pieces’ of Our Past:  How a Literal and Figurative Connection with the Caribbean          Book-Entry
     can not only Inform but Infuse One’s Global-African Identity.”. Carmen Gillespie:  The Catch of           
     Breath.  Ed. Daryl Lynn Dance.  Bucknell UP, TBD.
Speculative Films and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls:  WATCH IT!                           Manuscript
      Landham, Lexington P, 2023.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793627032/Speculative-Film-and-Moving-Images-by-or-about-Black-Women-and-Girls-Watch-It!
“HOPKINSON, NALO (December 20, 1960 –  ) NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, PROFESSOR”                          Book-Entry
     Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement .  Ed. Verner D Mitchell and Cynthia Davis.  
     Rowman and Littlefield P, 2019.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538101469/Encyclopedia-of-the-Black-Arts-Movement
First Year Writing Guide:  Twelfth Edition.  General Ed. C. Wynne; Associate Editor, K. Jeffrey,    Department Textbook
     et.al.Tapestry Press, 2017. 
“Hughes, Langston (1902-1967).”  Icons of African American Literature.                                      Book-Entry
     Ed. Yolanda W. Page.  Westport:  Greenwood P, 2011. 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/icons-of-african-american-literature-9780313352034/
“Edwidge Danticat’s Krik?Krak!.” The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work.                   Book-Entry
    NY: Facts on File, 2010.  231-32.  Print.
“Edwidge Danticat (1969- ).” The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work.                       Book-Entry
    NY: Facts on File, 2010. 87-88.  Print.
“Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker.”  The Encyclopedia of Contemporary     Writers and Their Work          Book-Entry
    NY: Facts on File, 2010.  95-96.  Print.
    https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Contemporary-Writers-Literary-Movements/dp/0816075786
  
Refereed
“George Lamming’s ‘The Boy and the Sea’ – A Littoral Artist’s Experimentation with         Peer-Review Article
    Language and a Postcolonial Examination of the Self.”  Anthurium:  A Caribbean           
    Studies Journal. 12.2 (2015) https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol12/iss2/5/             
“Mother of a New World?  Stereotypical Representations of Black Women in Three             Peer-Review Article
    Post-Apocalyptic Films.”  Journal of Feminist Scholarship.  6 (2014).  
    https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jfs/vol6/iss6/2/    
“George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin:  A Littoral Figure Discovers Self-Identity         Peer-Review Article
    and Authorial Language.”  Journal of Literature and Art Studies. 4 (2012): 431-53. Print.    
    https://www.academia.edu/28656187/Journal_of_Literature_and_Art_Studies_Vol.2_Issue_4_April_2012    
“Littoralia or the Littoral as Trope:  Developing a Paradigm of Post-coloniality.”              Peer-Review Article
    The C.L.R. James Journal. 6.1 (2010): 99-126.  Print. 
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/26758877 

Non-Refereed
“Realizing Our Institutional Missions:  Engaging Present and Past Heroes to Inspire            Article 
    Modern Global Leadership and Service.”  The Global Imperative for Higher Education-      
    A National Symposium. NYU-FRN Publications.  Faculty Resource Network.  New York 
    University.  March 2015.  Co-authored with Valerie Ann Johnson, Lynette Ralph, 
    Pamela Waldron-Moore. 
    https://facultyresourcenetwork.org/publications/the-global-imperative-for-higher-education/karima-k-jeffrey-valerie-ann-johnson-lynette-ralph-pamela-waldron-moore-realizing-our-institutional-missions-engaging-present-and-past-heroes-to-inspire-modern-global-leadership-and-service/


SELECT CITATIONS:
“Toward a Black Feminist Archive of the Color Purple.”  Myw.  April 12, 2024.    Medium.  https://medium.com/bouncin-and-behavin-blogs/toward-a-black-feminist-archive-of-the-color-purple-6202c3e40941

“Rare books and African American Studies.”  George Foster Peabody Special Collection.  William R. & Norma B. Harvey
    Library.  Hampton University.  Hampton, VA. https://hamptonu.libguides.com/c.php?g=431206&p=2941135
​
Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany.  “Political education in a food pantry:  child perspectives on the liturgy and agape of        Rev. Mangedwa Nyathi in Detroit (USA).  Third World Thematics:  A TWQ Journal.  May 18, 2023.                    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23802014.2023.2211963

“Recent and Upcoming Publications Related to Black Film.” In “Professional Notes and Research Resources.  Black             Camera.  (2023) 14 (2):  412.  Indiana UP.

“Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars.”  WIA Report:  Tracking the Progress of Women in Academia.  Women in
     Academia Report, 2023.  https://www.wiareport.com/2023/01/recent-books-of-interest-to-women-scholars-259/

“The Maternalocence:  The (In)Fertility of Mother Nature in Postapocalyptic Narrative.”  Dwayne Avery.  Environmental      Activism and the Maternal:  Mothers and Mother Earth in Activisim and Discourse.  Eds. Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich,
     Noemie Richard, Olivia Ungar, Melanie Younger, and Maryellen Symons.  Ontario:  Demeter P, 2020. 
    https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=bpHzDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT118&dq=%22karima+k.+Jeffrey%22&ots=ovVTjsI8TH&sig=32r8ZewT2QXqF3-8tC4Kz7qxL6U#v=onepage&q=%22karima%20k.%20Jeffrey%22&f=false

“A Queer Visitation:  Black Unbelonging and the Gothic Phenomenology of Flesh.”  Brenton Boyd.  liquid blackness.  Duke
     UP, Vol. 6, No 2 (2022):  16-35. https://read.dukeupress.edu/liquid-blackness/article/6/2/16/319808/A-Queer-
     VisitationBlack-Unbelonging-and-the-Gothic

“Techno-Orientalism and the Commodification of Asian Religious Cultures in the Wachowski’s Matrix Series.”  Girim
     Jung. American Academy of Religion:  Papers.  2022.  https://papers.aarweb.org/paper/techno-orientalism-and-commodification-asian-religious-cultures-wachowskis-matrix-series

“A New Year at the National Humanities Center.”  Robert D. Newman.  The National Humanities Center.  Robert D. Newman.       October 2022.  https://robertdnewman.org/a-new-year-at-the-national-humanities-center/

“Featured Research:  African American Creators.”  News from the Center.  National Humanities Center. October 3, 2022.  
    https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/featured-research-african-american-creators/

“Jones Humanities Speaker Series:  The Presenters.”  Norfolk Collegiate.  April 18, 5-7pm. 
     https://www.norfolkcollegiate.org/JonesSpeakerSeries/presenters

“Teaching A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:  An Interpretive Synthesis to inform Critical Literacy Instruction
     in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Context-Master’s Thesis by Irem Hamamcilar.
  The Program        
     Curriculum and Instruction Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University Ankara.  October 2019.
     http://repository.bilkent.edu.tr/bitstream/handle/11693/52686/10303608.pdf?sequence=1

“UNCF/Mellon Celebrates 30 years.”  Cultural Front:  A notebook on literary art, digital humanities, and emerging             ideas. October 21, 2019.  http://www.culturalfront.org/2019/10/uncfmellon-program-celebrates-30-years.html

“Remembering Stan Lee in the Classroom” by Jeff Tyler. November 12, 2018 
     https://blogs.hope.edu/stories-of-hope/arts-and-humanities/remember-stan-lee-in-the-classroom/  

“Studies on Individuals Writers” in Alonso, Maria Alonso’s “The Caribbean.”  The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 
     2016. Vol. 51 (4) 560-572. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021989416671848

“Exploring Justitia Through Eowyn and Niobe:  On Gender, Race and the Legal.  Branco, Patricia.  Liverpool Law Review
     
38, 63-82 (2017).  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10991-017-9194-6

“Representation of the negresse, Trauma and Marronage in Post-Slavery Narratives”-Master’s Thesis by Modupeoluwa       
     Tolulope Jebutu. 
Department of French.  Simon Fraser University.  http://summit.sfu.ca/item/16968

“Jeffrey, Karima.  Senior Seminar I - Hampton University.”  Tocqueville.  University of Richmond.  
    http://tocqueville.richmond.edu/syllabi.php?name=KarimaJeffrey

Deringer, Ludwig.  “Kongressbericht-The 125th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association of America, 2009:  
     A Focus on the Poetry Sessions.”  Meyer, Michael.  English and American Literatures.  Germany:  Auflage, 2011. 
     Print.  67

“Hampton University’s 2010 Read-In Inspires Painting.”  On the Prairie Diamond:  The Weblog of LeAnne Howe.  March 28, 
     2010.  

“Jeffrey, Karima Keesha.  Littoral Figures and the Language of the Sea:  A Postcolonial Study of the Protagonists in A
     Portrait 
of the Artist as a Young Man and In the Castle of My Skin.  Ph.D.  diss.  Howard Univ., 2007.  125pp.    
     [DAI-A 68, ix 
(March 20008):  AAT 3283253.]  Brockman, William S.  Current JJ Checklist.  James Joyce Quarterly. 
     University of Tulsa.  


REVIEWER: 
2024     CAIRO STUDIES IN ENGLISH.  “The Colonizer Within:  Exploring Facets of Internalized Oppression in                       Palestine."  Cairo University.  Department of English Language and Literature.  Giza, Egypt.                           (Cairo.studies@journals, cu.edu.eg)
2024    American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) HBCU Faculty Fellowships and/or Grants Applications.  633 Third        Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6706.
2022    Routledge-Taylor and Francis Group.  Third World Thematics. A TWQ journal.  “Political Education in a
        Food 
Pantry: Child Perspectives on the Liturgy and Agape of Rev. Mangedwa Nyathi in Detroit.”  5 Howick                Place, London,SW1P1WG.
2020    McFarland Books.  The Crossroads of Voodoo Aesthetics and Postmodernism:  The Consciousness of Circum-Atlantic         Traumas in Postmodern African American Literature.  Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640 / 960 NC Hwy 88 W, Jefferson,NC
        28640 

2012    BIOGRAPHY.  Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
2012    Anthurium:  A Caribbean Studies Journal, online (Peer-Reviewer);
2011    Race/Ethnicity:Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, an online journal (Peer-Reviewer);
2006    Calvin College’s Kuyer’s Institute (Peer-Reviewer);
2007    Grand Valley State University Umoja magazine (Peer Reviewer).


SPECIAL CONFERENCE EVENTS:
February 2024    Judge—First Annual Virginia Black Film Festival (VBFF)--Hampton University, Hampton, VA;
April 2019        Panel Coordinator, Chair and Presenter-Black Girls Write/Right The Future-A Dynamic Conversation
                  about the Representations of Black Women/Girls in Speculative Fiction--
College Language Association
                  (CLA) Annual Conference, NCCU, Raleigh, NC;
November 2018     Panel Coordinator, Chair, and Presenter-“Women of Color in Speculative Fiction.”--South Atlantic
                  Modern Languages Association Annual Conference.  Birmingham, AL;
June 2018         Event Co-Coordinator and Primary Investigator- “Black Girls Write/Right The Future-A Conversation
                  about the Contributions and Legacies of Speculative Fiction by and about Women/Girls of African-
                  Descent.”--
UNCF/Mellon Teaching and Learning Institute.  Hampton University, Hampton, VA;
November 2014     Panel Coordinator and Presenter-“Realizing Our Institutional Missions-Engaging Present and Past
                  Heroes to Inspire Modern Global Leadership and Service”
--National Symposium. New York University
                  Faculty Resource Network.  San Juan, PR; 
November 2013     Co-Presenter with Dr. Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle (Department of Architecture)-“Here, I Am, Now:
                  Literary Spaces and Physical Places”
--Teaching and Learning Institute. Paine College,GA;    
October 2012      Panel Coordinator and Moderator-“OUR LEGACIES-Sustaining a Global Presence in the Twenty-First
                  Century
—Historically Black Colleges and University Faculty Development Network (H.B.C.U.-F.D.N.). 
                  Orlando, FL;
January 2011      Undergraduate Panel Coordinator and Moderator-“Applying Western and African Diasporic 
                  Philosophies/Spiritualities to Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo.”—The State of African American and African                   Diaspora Studies:  Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research.  Schomburg Center for Research in Black                        Culture, Harlem, NY.


SELECT SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
April 2024       “Developing Web-Content as Part of my DH Initiative on Black Women/Girls in Speculative Fiction”                      —CLA Annual Conference:   Confronting the Digital Divide:  Narratives form the Black Book                              Interactive Project.  Memphis, TN;

March 2023        “…and ‘Still We Rise’, or Do We?:  The Promise and Problems of Supergirls of African-Descent in
                  Popular Contemporary American Culture”--
2023 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium,
                  Center for Black Literature:  Diasporic Visions:  A Celebration of Black Speculative Fiction, Medgar
                  Evers College.  Brooklyn, NY; 

April 2019        “Black Women/Girls in Speculative Fiction:  Who have they been, why should we care, and what do the                   current trends show?”  CLA Annual Conference.  Raleigh, NC;

November 2018     “Ode’ to Halle-The Face of Black Women in Speculative Fiction Films”--SAMLA Annual Conference.                        Birmingham, AL;

July 2018         “Considering Lusophone Connections to Teaching/Research at Hampton University”--UNCF/Mellon                           Faculty Seminar.  Lisbon, Portugal;

March 2018        “What Type of Academic Preparation Does a Twenty-First Century English Major Require?”—North        
                  Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Greensboro, NC;


SELECT PANEL PRESENTATIONS:  
October 2019       Moderator-“Scholars Complicating Narratives:  Interrogating Citizenship, Race, Gender, and
                   Sexuality”--
UNCF/Mellon Programs 30th Annual Conference.  Washington, DC;
February 2019      Presenter -“Centennial Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance 1919-2019:  An Interdisciplinary      
                   Discussion with Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle (Professor Architecture)--
Hampton University, Hampton,                       VA;
October 2018       Panelist-“International Faculty Seminar 2018 to Portugal and Spain Breakout Session-THE AFRICAN    
                   DIASPORA IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKING AND LUSOPHONE WORLDS--
UNCF/Mellon Conference.  Spelman College,                       Atlanta, GA;
October 2018       Panelist-“Coordinating a Teaching and Learning Institute Breakout Session--UNCF/Mellon Conference.                     Spelman College, Atlanta, GA;
March 2018         Presenter-“Understanding the Afro-Latino Experience from a Caribbean/Postcolonial American                           Perspective”--Languages at Work Lecture Series.  Hampton University, Hampton, VA;
February 2016      Panelist- “The Materiality of Octavia Butler:  An Intergenerational Conversation.”--Inaugural
                   Octavia E. Butler:  Celebrating Letters, Life and Legacy Conference.  Spelman College, GA;    
March 2012         Panelist-“Apocalypse:  Creativity and Destruction at Future’s End—American Comparative Literary    
                   Association seminar, Brown University, RI;
March 2012         Panelist-“Exploring Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”—34th Annual National 
                   Conference on the Black Family, Hampton University, VA;
March 2012         Moderator-“State of the Black Family”—Town Hall Meeting, 34th Annual National Conference on the
                   Black Family-“Roots & Wings:  The Road to the Future Runs Through the Past,” Hampton University,
                   VA; 
August 2011        Presenter-“UNCF/Mellon Closing Plenary Address-“Extending a Legacy of International Presence and
                   Outreach at HBCU’s in the 21
st Century-Why Today?  Why Now?”—Teaching and Learning Institute. 
                   Hampton University, Hampton, VA;
October 2011       Panelist-Enriching the Teaching and Learning Environment: UNCF/Mellon Teaching and Learning        
                   Institutes
—UNCF/Mellon Conference, Buckhead, GA;
March 2010         Presenter-“Can we read LeAnne Howe’s Miko Kings as a post-racial text?  An Examination of the 
                   (Re)Structuring of Race in the Characters of Lena Coulter and Justina Maurepas”--Read-In.  
                   Hampton University, Hampton, VA.


OTHER PRESENTATIONS:
September 2024    Presenter-“Best Practices or Tackling Grantsmanship, Research, and Teaching at an HBCU”--Academics                     at Work.  Department of English and Foreign Languages.  Hampton University, Hampton, VA;
April 2022        Facilitator-Black Women/Girls as Redemptive Forces for the the Future:  A Showing of Fast Color,                      followed by a conversation—6th Annual Hampton University Film Festival (H.U.F.F.), Hampton
                  University, VA;
February 2021     Moderator-A Conversation with Travel Historian, Tammy Gibson and Associate Artistic Director for Le 
                  Petit Theatre in New Orleans--
Black History Month Author/Speaker Series, Arna Bontemps Museum,
                  virtual;
April 2019        Moderator-“SHORT FILM SCREENINGS on Faith in Film followed by a discussion”—4th Annual Hampton                        University Film Festival (H.U.F.F.), Hampton University, VA;
April 2019        Moderator- Good Friday ENG 323-The Bible As Literature, Student Presentations—Hampton University,  
                  VA;
March 2013        Moderator-“Literary Perspectives on Salvage the Bones”--Read-In, Hampton University, VA;
October 2012      Panelist- “Talk Back” - Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Hampton University, VA.


FACULTY DEVELOPMENT:
Hampton University:
Participant-UNCF/Mellon Faculty Seminars (Portugal/Spain (2018), Bahia, Brazil (2011), Internationalizing HBCU (2017);
Participant-UNCF/Mellon Mays Program Retreat (2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022);
Participant-New York University Faculty Resource Network Symposiums/Seminars (2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009);
Participant-Paine College UNCF/Mellon Faculty Teaching & Learning Institute-“Marginalized. . .Voices. . .” (2013); 
Participant-Fisk University UNCF/Mellon Faculty Teaching & Learning Institute- “Productive Feminist Scholars” (2013).


COMMUNITY SERVICE/OUTREACH/STUDY ABROAD INITIATIVES:         
August 2022-Present          Host - Freedom Life Church Online - Hampton, VA
September 2022-August 2024   Participant - Freedom School of Ministry - Hampton, VA;
August 2021-2023             Board Member  - Arna Bontemps Museum - Alexandria, LA;
October 2015-January 2022    Licensed Minister - Sixth Mount Zion Baptist - Temple, Hampton, VA;
February 2018                Performer, Swarthmore College Alumni Gospel Choir (SCAGC) Tour, South Africa                                           (Johannsburg and Cape Town);
March 2017                   Faculty-led Spring Break Trip for Hampton University students to Cuba;
May 2012                     Performer, SCAGC Anniversary University Tour, Shanghai/Xi’an, China;
March 2012                   Missionary & Faculty Development Coordinator-Kahunda Secondary School, Kahunda, Tanzania;
June 2010                    Missionary, Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Temple - Kangemi/Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda.
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