I have presented or read conference papers or creative works at the following conferences or readings:
October 2023: South Central Modern Language Association
Presentation: “Diversifying Sophomore Literature Classes Using Inclusivity and Interdisciplinarity”
April 2023: College Language Association Conference
Paper Presentation: “From the Scramble to the Second World War: Surviving the Second and Third Reich’s Acts of Atrocities”
October 2022: South Central Modern Language Association
Paper Presentation: “Neither/Nor: Dangerous Dames in Post-World War II Film Noirs”
October 2022: Southwestern Regional Conference 2022
Graduate Education Panel Participant: “Writing a Thesis or Dissertation: Tips on Succeeding in the Process”
February 2022: National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates Conference
Co-Presenter: “Reach Them Where They Are: Using Pop Culture to Create Awareness”
June 2021: Building Bridges/Dismantling Racism for the Common Good International Workshop & Conference
Unapologetically Inclusive in an Unapologetically Alienating Academia Roundtable Participant: “A Little Bit Goes a Long Way”
April 2021: Sigma Zeta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta’s 9th Annual History Conference
Poster Presentation: “Texan Women of Color in World War II”
March 2021: Midwest Regional Conference
Conference Paper: “The Converging Literary Movements of Interwar America (Maleficent Motherhood)”
February 2021: National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates Conference
Presentation: “Women of Color in Uniform during World War II”
October 2020: South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “The Converging Literary Movements of Interwar America (Faulkner and Hurston)”
October 2020: North Georgia Regional Conference
Short Story: “Dream a Little Dream”
February 2020: National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates Conference
Presentation: “The Long Road to Suffrage”
January 2020: Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Convention
Poster Presentation: “Fighting for the Right to Vote”
October 2019: South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “The Converging Literary Movements of Interwar America”
July 2019: Southern Writers Southern Writing Graduate Conference
Presentation: “The Forgotten Festival”
Short Story: “Welcome to Paradise”
July 2019: Texas Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium
Conference Paper: The Holocaust’s Forgotten Victims
April 2019: College Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “‘Sins, like chickens, come home to roost’: Chesnutt’s Fictionalized Account of the Wilmington Insurrection”
Short Story: “Nothing But The Water”
March 2019: Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US Conference
Conference Paper: “Cincinnati as Cultural Melting Pot”
March 2019: Southeastern American Studies Association Conference
Conference Paper: “Another Great Migration: Rural to Urban Movement”
February 2019: National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates Conference
Presentation: “Old Traditions in the New World: The Importance of Music Among the Afro-Latinx Diaspora”
October 2018: South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “The Importance of the Number Three in African American Literature”
October 2018: East Texas English Language & Literature Conference
Presentation: “Integrating Interdisciplinary Methods into Rhetoric 1302”
October 2018: Trends in Teaching College Composition Conference
Presentation: “Learn One, Do One, Try One: Collaborative Learning Experiences in the Rhetoric Classroom”
July 2018: Southern Writers Southern Writing Graduate Conference
Conference Paper: “An African Americanized Faulknerian Experience”
Short Story: “Still”
April 2018: College Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “Migrant Mothers/Native Children”
February 2018: Research~Art~Writing Conference
Short Film: “The Forgotten Festival”
February 2018: National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates Conference
Presentation: “The Overshadowed Genre: The Nonfiction Novel and Its Place in the African American Canon”
October 2017: South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “After Anne: Children and Genocide”
Short Story: excerpt of “Glimpses: Saturday on Sunday Street”
July 2017: Southern Writers Southern Writing Graduate Conference
Conference Paper: “The Loyal Opposition: Southern Unionism”
Short Story: “Down By The Riverside”
April 2017: College Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “The Mammy, The Sapphire, The Jezebel, and The Queen: The Portrayal of Women in Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter”
November 2016: South Central Modern Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “Orange as Omen in Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland”
October 2016: Shaheen Symposium
Conference Paper: “To Be Young, Gifted, Black and Still Marginalized: The Othering of Fellow Others in the Black Arts Movement.”
July 2016: Southern Writers Southern Writing Graduate Conference
Short Story: “Time”
April 2016: All the Pretty Words End-of-Semester Reading
Short Stories: “Graduation Day” and “Freedom, Mississippi”
April 2016: College Language Association Conference
Conference Paper: “Teaching Color Struck In A Color-Blind 21st Century”
October 2015: Cormac McCarthy Society Conference
Conference Paper: “The First Published Works of Cormac McCarthy”