“The Black Charismatic: Demagoguery and the Politics of Affect”

(book-length manuscript in preparation)

“Afro-pessimism and Black Optimism in Africana Literature’”

(book-length manuscript in preparation)

“John Coltrane and the Signifyin(g) Monk”

(article-length manuscript in preparation)

“The Biopolitics of Race and the Post-Genomic Turn to Caste”

(article-length manuscript in preparation)

“Teaching Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction”

(article—coauthored with Marina Bilbija—forthcoming in Reconstruction at 150: Reassessing the Revolutionary “New Birth of Freedom” [A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era series], eds. Orville Vernon Burton and J. Brent Morris. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press)

“‘Faulkner wasn’t our people’: Faulkner’s ‘Negroes,’ the McJunkinses’ Faulkner,

and Our Search for Greenfield Farm:

(essay forthcoming in Faulkner’s Families [Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha series], ed. Jay Watson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi)