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Reid, Mark A., ed. African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness.           Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2019.).  Now working on two book-length projects, a manuscript on Afro-European Cinema and Culture and one on gender and sexuality in recent African American Film. During the 2017 summer, I presented “Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight (2016): Urban Sexual Blues as Fluid Agency” at the 34th International Conference on Psychology and the Arts in Palermo, Sicily. See my CV below for a complete list of my publications.

Member of the  Modern Language Association at which I have held two delegate positions, a member of the Collegium for African American Research, the College Language Association, and MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US.  On the editorial board of the film journal Jump Cut and  have read manuscripts for such presses as MacMillan-Palgrave, Wallflower, SUNY, Cambridge, and most recently the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. University of Florida affiliations include the Center for African Studies and the Center for European Studies. Teach courses on African American Drama, The World of James Baldwin and Critical Race Theory, The World of Langston Hughes, Afro-European Literature and Culture, and The Harlem Renaissance.

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