Essays

“Notes From the Edge: Reflections on Black Literature, Feeling, and Teaching.” Contemporary Literature from the Classroom in Post-45 Contemporaries (2024).

“In Conversation with Kwame Kwei-Armah.” Beneatha’s Place Programme (Young Vic, 2023).

“On Islands.” Further than the Furthest Thing Programme (Young Vic, 2023).

“The Ancestor, Passing, and Imagination in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison edited by Linda Wagner-Martin and Kelly Reames (2023).

“Notes on Decolonising the Curriculum.” BLACKLINES: The Journal of Black British Writing, Issue 1, Summer 2021. 

“Grappling with Race: Wrestling and Racial (Mis)representation” in Everything Patterned. Wrestling Resurgence, 2020.

“Grace Jones: Cyborg Memoirist.” Music/Memory/Memoir edited by Robert Edgar, Fraser Mann, Helen Pleasance. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.

“Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle’s Show and Key & Peele.” Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak edited by Helen Davis and Sarah Illot. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

"Passing for white”: how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege.’ Guardian, 2018.

“Navigating the Library as a Researcher of Colour.” UX in Libraries Yearbook, June 2018

“Grappling and Ga(y)zing: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance in the WWE Debut of Goldust.” Performance and Pro Wrestling. edited by Broderick Chow, Laine Eero, Claire Warden. London: Routledge, 2016.

“Black, female, and postgraduate: why I cannot be the only one.” Guardian, 2013.

“Zora Neale Hurston and the Paradox of Patronage.” Critical Insights: Zora Neale Hurston edited by Sharon Lynette Jones. Ipswich: Salem Press, 2013.

Talks

“On Sentimentality (After Mary Ruefle): Wrestling with Feeling” (University of York, September 2024)

“Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Writing Through Nirvana’s Nevermind” Other Worlds: Contemporary Ekphrastic Poetry (The Open University, May 2024)

“What Women Wrestle With: Notes on Joanie Laurer” (University of York , May 2024)

“The Revenant Mulatta” (University of Cambridge, February 2022)

“Don Draper’s Mammy: Racial Ambiguity in AMC’s Mad Men” (University of Sussex, November 2021)

“Re-imagining Passing: A Feminist Project" (University of York February 2019)

“Passing and Its Transatlantic Contexts.” (University of Glasgow, November 2018)

“Passing Amid Protest” (Kings College London, April 2018, British Association of American Studies Conference)

“Performance and Professional Wrestling” (Leicester, Oct 17, Everybody’s Reading Festival)

“Beyond the Passing-For-White Figure in Post-Black Comedy” (University of Leeds 2014, Race in the Americas Seminar)