AfAm 381 Topics: Performance of Memory in the Black Atlantic
AFAM 259, Intro to African American Drama
AFAM 378, The Harlem Renaissance
AFAM 379, African American Women Playwrights
AFAM 332, Black Feminist Theories
Leon Forrest Professorship of African American Studies, Northwestern University, September 2001-August 2004.
2001-2002
Rockefeller Fellowship in Black Performing Arts, Stanford Humanities Center
"Remembering the Maafa," Assaph. Section C, Studies in Theatre, forthcoming.
"Who Is This Ancestor?: Performing Memory in Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons" in D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera, eds., Sage Handbook of Performance Studies (Thousand Oaks,CA: Sage Publications, 2006.)
"What Is To Be Remembered? Tourism to Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons," Theatre Journal 57.4 (December 2005): 617-637.
"Dry Bones: Spiritual Apprehension in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone" in Vincent Wimbush, ed., African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures (NY: Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., 2000).
"Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone," Research in African Literatures 30.4 (Winter 1999): 92-105. Rpt. in John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds., African Drama and Performance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).
"Writing the Absent Potential: Drama, Performance, and the Canon of African American Literature," in Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, eds., Performance and Performativity (New York: Routledge, 1996); rpt in Lizbeth Goodman,ed ., The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance, 1998.
