"Beyond the Famous Few: Five Women Who Shaped Black History and Literature," Columbia University Press Blog (February 2024).

"How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art: Courtney Thorsson on the Emergence of a Black Feminist Literary Culture in America" (book excerpt from The Sisterhood), LitHub, November 2023.

"The Chaneysville Incident and The Research Narrative in Contemporary African American Literature." Studies in the Novel. 55.1 (Spring 2023): 17-36.

Review of From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell. Legacy 38.1-2 (2021): 163-65.

"'They could be killing kids forever!': The Atlanta Child Murders in African American Literature." African American Review. 53.4 (Winter 2020): 315-332. 
**Winner of the 2020 Weixlmann Prize for best essay in African American Review about 20th- and 21st-century literature.**

"Fairy Tales of Race and Nation," Review of Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi. Public Books, April 9, 2019.

"Kitchen, Nation, Diaspora: Ntozake Shange's African American Foodways." Foodscapes: Food, Space, and Place in a Global Society, edited by Carlnita Greene. Peter Lang, 2018: 199-222.

"Foodways in Contemporary African American Poetry: Harryette Mullen and Evie Shockley." Contemporary Literature. 57.2 (Summer 2016): 184-215.

Co-author, "Black Women's Food Work as Critical Space." Gastronomica 15.4 (Winter 2015): 34-49.

"Gwendolyn Brooks's Black Aesthetic of the Domestic." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 40.1 (2015): 149-76.

"James Baldwin and Black Women's Fiction." African American Review 46.4. (2013): 615-31.

"Dancing Up A Nation: Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow." Callaloo 30.2 (Summer 2007): 644-52.