Publications

Books

• People Get Ready: African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2009.
  https://www.academia.edu/9590001/People_Get_Ready_African_American_and_Caribbean_Cultural_Exchange
  
  

Articles/Essays

• "Kreyol Intertextuality and Decolonizing Narrative in Veillées noires." Dalhousie French Studies 116 (2020). This essay identifies three levels of intertextuality in the short story, “Echec et mat” by Léon-Gontran Damas. Incorporating folkloric tales, lyrics from popular music, and 19th Century satiric writing in Kreyol, “Echec et mat” offers a microcosm of the intertextual techniques employed throughout Damas' under-appreciated collection of stories, Veillées noires. 
  https://www.academia.edu/92905257/Kreyol_Intertextuality_and_Decolonizing_Narrative_in_Veill%C3%A9es...
• “Agricultural Diversification and Non-Traditional Systems for Sustainable Food Production.” In Agricultural Diversification in the Caribbean, ed., Wayne Ganpat.  Kingston: Ian Randle and University of the West Indies Press, 2015: 299-360.  With Leighton Naraine et al. https://www.academia.edu/36631767/Agricultural_Diversification_and_Non-Traditional_Systems_for_Susta...
• “Rise Up?  New Directions in the Caribbean Bildungsroman.”  Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 7:1 (Spring 2018): 11-18.   
  
  https://www.academia.edu/36575765/Rise_Up_New_Directions_in_the_Caribbean_Womens_Bildungsroman
• “James, C.L.R.” Major author entry in The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, eds., Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2016. Blackwell Reference Online. 
  
  https://www.academia.edu/25468796/_C.L.R._James_Entry_in_Encyclopedia_of_Postcolonial_Studies_
• “DIY Noise and Compositional Horizons: Indie Musicians and Promoters in the Age of Digital Reproduction.”  Civilisations 13 (2014): 51-73.  With Billy Geoghegan.  
  
  https://www.academia.edu/9595398/_DIY_Noise_and_Compositional_Horizons_Indie_Musicians_and_Promoters...
  

• “Man-Made Disasters: Viewing Mt. Pelée After Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake.” Small Axe SX Salon 12  (May 2013) http://smallaxe.net/wordpress3/discussions/2013/05/27/manmade-disasters/

• “‘Bifurcated Mobility’?  Telecommunication, Globalization, and International Service-Learning.”  Faculty Focus 9:3: (2010): 10-11.  http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/Publications/FacultyFocus/content/2010/2010_october.pdf

• “Caribbean Literature and Popular Culture.” Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean. Eds., Richard Hillman and Thomas D’Agostino. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2003. 305-332. With Paul Miller. Revised and reprinted for second edition, 2009.
  https://www.academia.edu/37765563/_Caribbean_Literature_and_Popular_Culture_in_Landscape_Format
  
  

Creative Publications

• Camille's Lakou (Translation Excerpt) An English translation of two chapters from the novel, Moun Lakou written in French and Guadeloupean Kreyol by Marie Léticée. This excerpt won the 2022 Anne Frydman Translation Prize from The Hopkins Review. https://www.academia.edu/99772154/_Camilles_Lakou_Translation_Excerpt

Awards

• 2023  UCF Office of Research Mentoring Award with Amrita Ghosh
• 2022  Anne Frydman Translation Prize from The Hopkins Review for an excerpt of Camille's Lakou, my English translation of the novel, Moun Lakou by Guadeloupean author Marie Léticée
• 2017  U.S. Department of State, Fulbright Core Scholar, St. Kitts-Nevis
  
• 2016  Department of Education, Project Director for "Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean" as part of America: Believing in Cultural Diversity through Latin American Studies Curriculum Development omnibus grant
• 2013  National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholar in Residence at Schomburg Center for "Translating Négritude Prose by Léon-Gontran Damas"
• 2012  Organization of American States, Consultant for FEMCIDI Partnership for Development Fund to Implement Hydroponic Model Facility in Nevis, Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad
• 2010  National Science Foundation, PI for RAPID Research to Assess Mobile Technology and Inter-Agency Coordination in Disaster Relief and Recover Following the Haiti Earthquake

Courses

• Summer 2026