Conferences
Oral paper: “‘What do you do when you see a whale, men? Sing out for him!’: Reading Moby-Dick as a Sonic Novel.” English Student Association Annual Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Mar. 2017)
Oral Paper: “The Postmodern Slave Narrative and the Production of Diaspora,” English student Association Annual Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Mar. 2014)
Oral Paper: “Bridging the Gap: In-Class Workshops to Encourage Application of Writing Skills Across the Curriculum,” Association for the Tutoring Profession (ATP), New Orleans, LA (Mar. 2010)
Poster Presentation: “Mamma Sees in the Day Mamma Sees in the Night: Modernization and Traditional Ewe Religion,” Exemplary Research Symposium, The University at Buffalo, SUNY (May 2006)
Seminar Papers
“Exterminate all the brutes!’: Annihilation in The Heart of Darkness and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” (2013)
“Ironic Distance: Economies of Sympathy and Pity in Early African American Fiction” (2013)
“Detective Fever: Victorian Detective Fiction and the Aesthetics of Withdrawal” (2013)
“Poe’s Philosophy of Composition and the Problems of Nineteenth Century Literary Production” (2012)
“The Postmodern Slave Narrative and the Production of Diaspora” (2012)
“He Look Like He See Zombi”: Postcoloniality and the Structure Myth in Wide Sargasso Sea” (2011)
“A delight of conviction, not loss: Appearance of Mimicry in Naipaul’s The Mimic Men” (2011)
“The Rhetoric of Violence and Revolution in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Biography of John Brown” (2011) [M.A. Thesis]
“Eldridge Cleaver and the Rhetoric of Revolution” (2010)
“Voicing Truth and Authority in the African American Novel 1850-1865” (2010)
Publications
“Looking for China” 时空 (Shi Kong), Shandong University (China)(Spring 2007)
“A New Yorker in China” 时空 (Shi Kong), Shandong University (China)(Spring 2007)
“Out of Africa: A Journey Out of Context,” Honors Today, SUNY Buffalo (Spring 2006)
“Yearlong Stay in Africa Reveals the Myth of Race,” Buffalo News, Buffalo NY (6 Oct 2005)