Books
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology. Wilfrid Laurier UP, February, 2020.
Companion Volume to the Black Prairie Archives: Critical Readings in the Black Prairie Archives. In revision and under contract to Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Art and the Politics of Relation, co-edited with Winfried Siemerling. McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming 2026.
Journal Issues
“Black Lives Matter,” co-edited with Camille Isaacs. Special issue, Studies in Canadian Literature 47, no. 2 (2022).
Journal Articles
“Beyond National Time: Black Atlantic Temporalities and the Time-Space of Black CanadianCultural Studies.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry 8, no. 4 (2021).
“The Outside of the Inside: Blackness and the Remaking of Canadian Institutional Life.” In“Literary Pedagogy Confronting Colonialism,” special issue, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry 7, no. 3 (2020): 258–65.
“CanLit as Critical Genealogy.” In “Vancouver,” special issue, Canadian Literature 239(2019):13–17.
“To the End of the Hyphen-Nation: Decolonizing Multiculturalism.” English Studies in Canada 42 no. 3-4 (December 2016): 81–98.
“Black Civility: Grammars of Black Protest on the Canadian Prairies 1905-1950.” In “Black Canadian Thought,” edited by Peter Hudson, special issue, The CLR James Journal 20, no. 1/2 (2014): 83–96.
“The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness.” Journal of Canadian Studies 45, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 31–57.
“Writing a Home for Prairie Blackness: Addena Sumter Freitag’s Stay Black & Die and Cheryl Foggo’s Pourin’ Down Rain.” Canadian Literature 182 (Fall 2004): 67–83.
Book Chapters
“From Absence to Abundance: Recovering the Black Prairie Archive, 1872–2023.” In Routledge Handbook to Black Canadian Literature, ed. Andrea A. Davis and Leslie Sanders. Oxford: Taylor & Francis, 2024. 162-183. [Revised and updated Introduction to The Black Prairie Archives]
“‘Making Things Right’: Black Settlement and the Politics of Urban Territory.” In Land/Relations: Justice and Relation in Canadian Literary Studies, ed. Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2023
“Case Study: Listening to Many Voices (A Conversation with Karina Vernon).” In The Routledge Introduction to Auto/Biography in Canada, ed. Sonja Boon, Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak and Candida Rifkind. Routledge, 2022.
“Fresh-Water Archives: Reading Water in Troy Burle Bailey’s The Pierre Bonga Loops.” In Moving Archives, ed. Linda Morra, 133–45. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2019.
“Invisibility Exhibit: The Limits of Library and Archives Canada’s ‘Multicultural Mandate.’” In Basements and Attics: Explorations in the Materiality and Ethics of Canadian Women’s Archives, ed. Linda Morra and Jessica Schaegerl, 182–98. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2011.
Book Reviews
Review of The Response of Weeds: The Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies by Bertrand Bickersteth. The Malahat Review (2021).
“A Reckoning with the Prairies: A Review of Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator.” Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism (October 2020).
Review of New York and Toronto Novels After Postmodernism: Explorations of the Urban by Caronline Rosenthal. ZKS: Zeitschrift fur Kanadastudien 35 (2015): 161–3.
“Seven Tracks to Black British Columbia: Wayde Compton’s After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region.” The British Columbian Quarterly 147 (Summer 2012): 147–49.
“Black Atlantis.” West Coast Line 42 (Spring 2008): 88–9.
“Review of Who Da Man? Black Masculinities and Sporting Cultures.” Topia 15 (Spring 2006): 132–34.
“Post-Race: Contemporary Black Writing.” Canadian Literature 176 (Spring 2003): 125–6.
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