Articles

Selected Articles

"Amiri Baraka" (2018). In Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama, edited by David Palmer.

"2017 ATHE Presidential Address" (2018). In Theatre Topics.

"Pessimism in the Age of Obama" (2017). In American Literary History.

"Performing Black Life” (2017). In a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

"In Character" (2017). In Imagined Theatres, edited by Daniel Sack.

“The Long Shadow of A Raisin in the Sun” (2017), In Center-Staging the Sixties, edited by James Harding and Cindy Rosenthal..

"An Interview with David Henry Hwang" (2016). In Theatre Survey.

"Sustaining Black Theater" (2016). In SDC Journal.

"Vera Stark at the Crossroad of History and Race" (2016). In A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage, edited by Jocelyn Buckner.

"An Interview with Quiara Alegria Hudes" (2015). In Theatre Survey.

"An Interview with Thomas Bradshaw" (2014). In Theatre Survey.

"Still Thrills: The Drama of Chess" (2014). With Gary Alan Fine. In TDR.

"Black Performance Studies in the New Millennium" (2013). In Theatre Journal.

“The Influence of Lloyd Richards” (2012). In Public Theatres and Theatre Publics. Edited by Sara Freeman and Robert Shimko. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

“Plaitform Concerns: Trey Anthony’s ‘Da Kink in My Hair” (2012). In New Canadian Realisms.
Edited by Roberta Barker and Kim Solga. Playwrights Canada Press.

“Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: The Trail of Tears & US Museum Culture” (2011)
In Performance in the Borderlands, .
edited with Ramon Rivera-Servera. Palgrave Macmillan.

“A Racial Concern: Adrienne Kennedy’s Diary of Lights” (2012). With Megan Geigner. In Modern Drama.

"The Politics of Lydia Diamond’s Adaptation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye” (2012)
With Jocelyn Prince. In African American Review.

“A Black Cat and Other Plays: African-American Productions of Tennessee Williams’s Drama” (2012).
With Barton Palmer, George Crandell, and Philip Kolin.
In Tennessee Williams Annual Review.

“Twilight in Tennessee: The Similar Styles of Anna Deavere Smith and Tennessee Williams” (2009) In The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights. Edited by Philip C. Kolin.

"Writing with Paint" (2010)
Harvey Young, Author.
In Theater Historiography: Critical Questions. Edited by Henry C. Bial and Scott Magelssen. The University of Michigan Press.

"The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching" (2005)
In Theatre Journal.

“‘A New Fear Known to Me’: Emmett Till’s Impact on Black Youth Militancy” (2008)
In Southern Quarterly.