Selected Journalism and Criticism
Literary/Arts Criticism
July 2022, ‘The Box’ captures inhumanity of solitary confinement, Sightlines
July 2019, On The Longevity of Adrienne Rich, Book Riot
July 2019, An Education on Art and Democracy from Toni Morrison, Book Riot
March 2019, The African American Poet at Historian, Public Seminar
January 2019, These Writers Will Challenge Your Assumptions About Mississippi, Electric Literature
December 2018, A Reading List for Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex, Electric Literature
December 2018, The Mad girls: Coming to Terms with Sylvia Plath, Book Riot
October 2018, In the Wake of Trump YA Books Highlight Immigrant Narratives, Literary Hub
October 2018, Eco’s How to Write a Thesis: A Love Letter to the Humanities, Public Seminar
October 2017, Our Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied,Sing, The Rumpus
July 2017, On "Left Behind" by Chasity West (2nd in a Series on African American Women's Prison Writing, USIH Blog
June 2017, On 'My Story' by India Porter, USIH Blog
June 2017, What Makes a Prison Writer?, USIH Blog
April 2017, What's in a Book? My Prison Library Copy of Wall Tappings, USIH Blog
March 2017, "How 'Heaven to Betsy" by Maud Hart Lovelace Convinced Me I Deserved to be a Writer", Bustle Books
December 2016, On Hillbilly Elegy, USIH Blog
Social Justice
January 2022, If Martin Luther King were alive today his radicalism wouldn’t be celebrated, Open Democracy
June 2020, Private Prisons Should Be Abolished, But They Aren’t The Real Problem, Jacobin
March 2019, Selling Angola, Contingent Magazine
January 2019, People of Color Living in American’s Rural Spaces Face Constant Erasure, Teen Vogue
October 2018, Restricting Books for Prisoners Harms Everyone, Even the Non Incarcerated, Electric Literature
March 2018, Martin Luther King Jr and the Black Panther Party Shared Many of the Same Ideologies, Teen Vogue
October 2017, The Activists Fighting Mass Incarceration? They’re Not Who You Think, The Washington Post
August 2017, Tear Them All Down Gettysburg, Unsweetened Magazine
August 2016, Here's What the Angola 3 Dreamt Up in Solitary, Scalawag Magazine
Pop Culture
September 2021, Emo and the Problems With Seth Cohen, Wild Greens Magazine
February 2021, What Not to Read: The Misplaced Critiques of Bridgerton, The Mudsill
June 2019, Instagram Planners and the Protestant Work Ethic, Mockingbird
March 2019, Kat Stratford Showed me it was okay to be an angry feminist
June 2018, A Feminist History of the Teen Drama, Avidly, The LA Review of Books
July 2017, Still Star Crossed as a Black Feminist Interpretation of Shakespeare, Unsweetened Magazine
March 2017, Riverdale: CW's Transgressive Teen Drama, Unsweetened Magazine
February 2017, "I am Not Your Negro" and the Erasure of Women of Color, USIH blog
November 2016, Revisiting the Rory Gilmore Roadmap, Unsweetened Magazine
October 2016, American Girls and Growing Up With History, Unsweetened Magazine
Personal Essays
December 2023, “Too Queer, Too Smart” for Abuse, Autostraddle
July 2022, We Need to Talk about ADHD in Women, Aila Magazine
November 2018, The 2000s Skirt In My Closet I Can’t Seem To Give Up, Hellogiggles
May 2017, Cussing and Coming of Age in Jared Kushner's Essex, Unsweetened Magazine
Academia
June 2022, Ableism and the Post-Pandemic Rollback of Extensions, The Professor is In
November 2020, Online Education Can Help the Neurodivergent and Disabled, The Professor Is In
September 2019, How To Get Started in Freelance Writing, The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 2019, Undisciplining the Interdisciplinary, USIH Blog
November, 2018, Jill Lepore and False Notions of the Public, USIH Blog
October 2018, #metoo and the Politics of Citation, USIH Blog
October 2017, Cute Clothes and the Academic Career, The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 2017, The Four Harassers of the History Department, Unsweetened Magazine
January 2017, What is Intellectual Work?, USIH Blog
November 2016, The Problematic Coding of White Trash in Academia, The Establishment
November 2016, The Ivory Tower is Moving, USIH Blog
November 2016, Coding White Trash in Academia, The Establishment (originally published by Unsweetened Magazine )