Publications and Conference Papers

Books

Producing the New Negro: The Work of Art in the Harlem Renaissance.  Duke University Press. Forthcoming.

Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World. Co-authored with Karen Klugman, Shelton Waldrep, and Susan Willis. Duke University Press, 1995. British Edition: Rivers Oram Press, 1996.

Articles and Chapters

“Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Harlem Renaissance: The Case of Countee Cullen.” Modernism/Modernity. 14 (2007) 3: 507-515.

"The Cowboy Businessman and 'The Course of Empire':  Owen Wister's The Virginian."  Cultural Critique. Forthcoming 2000.

"Playtime: Toys and the Labors of Childhood."  Colby Quarterly.  (2000): 60-76.

"'The Face of America': Performing Race and Nation in Jessie Fauset's There is Confusion."  Yale Journal of Criticism. 12 (1999)1:  89-111.

"American Racial Discourse, 1900-1930: George Schuyler’s Black No More." Novel 30 (1997) 2: 170-192.

"Black No More: George Schuyler and the Politics of 'Racial Culture.'" In The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined. Victor Kramer, ed. 2nd Edition. New York: AMS Press. Forthcoming 1997.

"Gatorland, A Fable." The Carolina Quarterly. 48 (1995) 1: 59-69.

"The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, Community, and Black Female Subjectivity." African American Review 27 (1993) 3: 421-431.

"It's a Small World After All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification." South Atlantic Quarterly 92 (1993) 1: 63-88.

Papers Presented

“‘Modernists Among the Moderns’: Modernism, Mass Culture, and Harlem Renaissance Poetry.” Modernist Authenticities Seminar. Modernist Studies Association. Chicago, Illinois, 2005.

“‘The Land of the Blacks’: Art and Identity in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess.” American Literature Association. Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.

“Managing the Natural, the Local, and the Global at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.” Plenary Session. Utopian Studies. Orlando, Florida, 2002.

“The Magic of Objects: Baum’s Oz Series.” Utopian Studies. Orlando, Florida, 2002.

“Stalking the Mouse: Doing Disney Studies.”  Invited Respondent. Modern Language Association. New Orleans, 2001.

"The X-Files Problem in Contemporary Cultural Studies.” Roundtable Panel: Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Pedagogies of Desire.  Almost Always Deceived: Revolutionary Praxis and Reinventions of Need. University of Florida, Gainesville, 2001.

“Harlem Renaissance Poetry, Mass Culture, and the Ideology of Modernism.” American Studies Association. Montreal, Quebec, 1999.

"The Face of America":  Narratives of Race and Nation in Jessie Fauset’s There is Confusion." International Conference on Narrative. Dartmouth College, 1999.

"Playtime: Children and  Commodity Culture."  With Michelle Locker. University of Southern Maine Women's Studies High Tea and Feminist Insurgency Society, 1999.

"The Cowboy Businessman and the 'The Course of Empire': Owen Wister's The Virginian." International Conference on Narrative. Gainesville, Florida, 1997.

Chair and Commentator. "Television and the Limits of Knowledge." American Studies Association. Kansas City, 1996.

Chair. "Representing Race and Sex in the Seventies." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Savannah, 1996.

"Tina Too: Racial Style in the Seventies." Maine Women's Studies Conference. Portland, 1995.

"The Culture of Lynching." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, 1995.

"At the Rat: Performing Work at Disney." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Nashville, 1994.

"Living with Disney." Modern Language Association Convention. Toronto, 1993.

"Charting the Land of Night: Women's Poetry and the Limits of Harlem." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Boston, 1993.

"It's a Small World After All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification." Southern American Studies Association. New Orleans, 1993.

"It's a Small World After All." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Knoxville, 1992.

"Notes on History, Community, and Black Women's Bodies: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Conference on Theory, African American Studies and Black Community. University of Pennsylvania, 1992.

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