Assistant Professor
Department of English and Ethnic Studies Program
website: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~ttg4/
Teaching Experience
Assistant
Professor, Department of English and
Ethnic Studies Program .
Assistant Professor, English. Southern University.
Teaching Assistant, English.
Teaching Assistant, Minority Engineering Freshman Seminar.
Other Professional experience
Assistant
Coordinator, Minority Engineering Program.
Educational Testing Service. Item Writer. July 2000-July 2003.
Writing
Tutor and Writing Center Assistant, Baton Rouge Community College, 1998-2000.
Research Interests
African American Protest Narratives/Movements
Black Feminist/womanist Studies
Twentieth
Century African Literature
Religion
in Literature
Diversity Studies
Caribbean Women’s Literature
Courses Taught
Introduction to
African American Literature (Undergraduate, SU)
Contemporary American Literature (Undergraduate, SU)
Black Women Protest Writers (Undergraduate, NAU)
Africana Women Writers (Undergraduate, NAU)
African American Protest Literature (Undergraduate, NAU)
Confinement Literature (Graduate, NAU)
Publications
Articles/Book Chapters
“Where Do We Go
From Here? The Literature of African Peoples and African Studies”
African
Studies for the 21st Century. Editor, Jacob U.
Gordon. September 2004
“Speaking of Voice and August Wilson’s Women.” August
Eds. Dana Williams and
Sandra Shannon.
“The Virgin Mary, Eve, and Mary Magdalene in Richard
Wright’s Novels.”
College Language Association Journal. (December 2002)
“Mother Dear: The Motivations of Tina McElroy Ansa’s Mudear.”
The Griot: Official
Journal for the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies.
Spring 2002.
Biographical Articles
“C.L.R.
James.” Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth
Century,
1914-2000.
“Richard
Wright.” Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth
Century,
1914-2000.
Works in Progress
Articles/Book Chapters
“Richard Wright’s Short Story, HBO’s Film,
and Sarah’s Song”
“Richard Wright’s Women” (tentatively
titled) for Richard Wright Dictionary (Projected
date of
publication:
Paule
“Talking on Water: Water and Storytelling
in Edwidge Danticat and Paule Marshall”
Books
Being
My Father’s Child: Issues of Blackness and Fatherhood in Richard Wright,
Langston
Hughes,
and Malcolm X
Paper Presentations and Lectures
“Talking
on Water: The Significance of Water and Storytelling in Edwidge
Danticat and
Paule
Islands.
“Where
Would I Be? The Importance of Mentoring. College Language
Association Convention.
Lecture,
“Another One Jailed!”: African American Women, the
Civil Rights Movement, and Black Power. Sponsored by NAU’s Ethnic Studies
Program. April 2004.
“Richard Wright’s Short Story and Sarah’s Song.” MELUS Conference.
“I
am a Black Woman”: Teaching at Northern
“Richard Wright’s Short Story, HBO’s Film, and Sarah’s
Song.” College
Language Association Conference.
“Navigation of Confinement in the Narratives of Frederick
Douglass and Malcolm X” Southern Humanities Council.
“The
Prison Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X.” College
Language Association Conference.
“Where
Do We Go from Here? The Future of African American Studies at
HBCU’s.” Southern Conference
on African American Studies, Inc. Convention.
Public
Lecture on Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying.
Southern University Literary Society.
“Stowe’s
Call and the Wright Response: Assessing African American Religion and Protest.”
College Language Association Conference.
“Stowe’s
Call and the Wright Response: Assessing African-American Religion and
Protest.” MELUS
Conference.
“Forging Freedom: The Mother-Daughter Relationship in
Tina McElroy Ansa’s
“Mother Dearest: Mothers in Wright’s Native
Son and The Outsider.” Spring Graduate Student
Conference.
“The Spirit of the Great Mother in Gloria Naylor’s Mama
Day.” Women
Writers of Color.
Workshop, Seminar,
Conference Attendance and Participation
Moderator,
Furious Flower Conference
Sponsored.
Attendee, “History and Memory of Civil Rights
Movement.” Summer Seminar.
Dr.
Valerie Smith, Facilitator. Department of English,
Attendee, Modern Language Association.
Awards
Northern
Southern University Summer Research Fellowship, 2003. Project: From
the
Service
Departmental Service
Coordinator,
Northern
2004.
Co-Advisor, NAU, Department of English.
Graduate Student Symposium. 2003-2004.
Moderator and Coordinator of Student Panel. Spring 2004
Graduate Student Symposium.
Chair,
203: Introduction to African American Literature Syllabus Review Committee.
Spring 2002-Fall 2003.
Moderator and Coordinator of Southern University
Undergraduate Student Panel. Spring Graduate Student Conference.
Member, Curriculum Committee. Department of English, Southern University.
2000-2003.
Member, Departmental Senior Comprehensive. Southern University. Department of English and Philosophy. 2000-2003.
Member, Scholarship Committee. Southern University.
Department of English and
Philosophy.
2002-2003.
Green, Tara T. and Cynthia Bryant. Primis: 110
Composition Textbook, Instructor’s
Manual. McGraw-Hill: Custom Publishing Division, 2001.
University Service
Member, Commission on Ethnic Diversity. Northern
Member, Literary Society of Southern University. 2000-2003.
Graduate
Student Representative, Dean of Arts and Sciences Search Committee.
Steering Committee Member, African and
African-American Studies Program.
Volunteer Recruiter for
Graduate Student Representative, Chancellor’s Search
Committee.
Community Service
Member,
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., --Public Service Organization
Delteen
program (2000-2003)
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Writing Skills
Workshop Facilitator for Teen Group
Co-coordinator,
Women in the Arts program (September 2002)
Victim Witness Board of Advisors,
Flagstaff Mayor Advisory Council
Professional Affiliations
College Language Association (CLA), Ass. Sec. of Black Studies Committee
Modern
Language Association (MLA), Black American Literature and Culture Division
Society for
Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
Southern
Conference On Afro-American Studies, Inc.
(S.C.A.A.S.I.)
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Judge, Student
Essay Competition (2001)