Books
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Other recent publications, interviews, and upcoming events
My Upcoming Public Talks in Oklahoma
March 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM, Tulsa Community College
Southeast Campus Auditorium, Bldg. 9
Unit Corporation Lectureship for Women’s History Month
“Invisible Woman: Writing the Bio of Fanny McConnell Ellison”
March 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM, Oklahoma City University
Walker Center for Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma Humanities book talk: Lalita Tademy’s Citizens Creek
March 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM, Duncan Public Library
Oklahoma Humanities book talk: Brandon Hobson’s The Removed
March 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM, Stillwater Public Library
Oklahoma Humanities book talk: LeAnne Howe’s Choctalking on Other Realities
Recent essays and reviews
“Look for the Union Label: Self-Fashioning A Working-Class Identity,” co-written with MC Floreani for Oklahoma Humanities magazine, Fall 2024.
“Cultural Citizenship and Belonging in Multi-Ethnic US Literature,” in A Companion to the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, edited by Gary Totten.
“Why I Haven’t Been Teaching Kerouac,” the Jack Kerouac Centenary special issue of The Journal of Beat Studies, edited by Ronna Johnson and Tim Hunt.
Review of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir, by Curtis Chin. Little Brown Books, 2023. The Journal of Working-Class Studies.
Review of Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work, by Joseph Entin. University of Michigan Press, 2023. The Journal of Working-Class Studies.
Author Interviews:
“At the Border Your Life is Choice: An Interview with Poet Alberto Riós” (with Mark Griffin and Madelyn Parker, MELUS journal 2019)
“Confounded By Time and Love” An Interview with Poet Jericho Brown
(with Cameron Brown, MELUS journal spring 2024)