Publications

Illustration by Mary Syloria

Curriculum Vitae

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Existential Solitude and Human Connection: Thematic Depth in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days.” CineAction, 104.

I Am the Night, Color Me Black: The Vampiric Positionality of the Black Pedagogue in Ganja & Hess. Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought 9(1), October 2022.

“Nobodies to Everybody: Pervasive Appropriation and Marginalized Students.” In B. Bunjun (Ed.), Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students (pp. 55-62). Fernwood Publishing.

Book Review of Amy J. Ransom. I Am Legend as American Myth: Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018. 223 p. ISBN: 978-1-4766-6833-8.” Belphégor, 18(1), Winter 2020.

“Nobodies to Everybody.” Model View Culture 11(41), September 2016.

Real or Rational? A Study of Substantive and Instrumental Rationality in Kakashi. The Journal of Comparative Media Arts 2, Fall/Winter 2015.


Edited Publications

Conference Proceedings. The Critical Indigenous, Race and Feminist Studies Conference (CIRFS) 2017 (Spring 2018).

Temporal Resistance: Deleuze and the Unmaking of Colonial Narratives in Education. Bloomsbury Press. (forthcoming 2026).


Conference Papers

“Spiders and Sequence: Temporal Embodiment and Arachnid Aesthetics in a Globalizing World.” The 57th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, March 2026.

“Zoontologies of Care: Understanding Human-Cat Relationships Through Illness and Health.” Narratives of Disease in Literature and Culture. The 7th International Conference on English Language and Anglophone Literatures Today (Elalt 7), October 2024.

“Navigating Identity and Sexuality: Sibling Relations and Social Marginalization in Sébastien Vanicek’s Infested.” Canadian Sex Research Forum 2024 Annual Conference,
October 2024.

“Cultural Alchemy in the Midnight Society: Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Its Influence on Children’s Media.” Television and Sustainability via the Critical Studies in Television Show Conference, June 2024.

“Redefining Girlhood: Semiotics and Aesthetics in Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. and the Intersection with Demigirl Identity” The Mundanity of Girlhood: Pleasure, Play, and the Everyday via the Girlhood Studies Collective, April 2024.

“New Black Realism: Cinematic Subversions of Fascist Ideology.” The Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference 2022, May 2023.

“Marginality and Mimesis: Mimesis and Representation in Dynasty.” Film Studies Graduate Colloquium, March 2023.

“The Role of Persona in Praxis, Positionality, and Film Analysis Now & Later.” The Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference 2022, May 2022.

“‘She’s on Fire!’: Post-Secondary EDIA Myths and the Burnout of Marginalized Positionalities.” 10th Annual Black Doctoral Network Conference, October 2022.

“The Time Element: Romantic Agrarianism in a Contemporary Context.” The Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference 2021, June 2021.

“Elegy.” The Critical Indigenous, Race and Feminist Studies Student Conference 2021, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, May 2021.

“Back There: Finding Polity in New Jack City.” National Conference of Black Political Scientists, March 2021.

“The Vampiric Automaton.” The 5th International Film and Arts Festival Conference 2020, October 2020.

“Seeing Is Believing: The Visuality of the Eye, the Brain, and Generative Adversarial Networks.” History Across the Disciplines Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, March 2020.

“Narcissism in Siblingship.” Siblings on Stage and Screen Conference, University of Worcestershire, UK, September 2018.

Beyond Vietnam: Of Soldiers and Soul Men.” The Critical Indigenous, Race and Feminist Studies Student Conference 2018, University of King’s College, Halifax, March 2018.

“Charismas and Cannibals.” (De)Composing Death, Dalhousie University, Halifax, August 2018.

“Narcissism in Siblingship.” Summer Institute of Sexuality Studies 2017, York University, Toronto, May 2017.

“Nobodies to Everybody.” The Critical Indigenous, Race and Feminist Studies Student Conference 2017, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, April 2017.


Selected Additional Non-Refereed Publications

You Make Me Want to Wear Dresses.” Agency Magazine. September 2025.

The Cake.” Agency Magazine. February 2025.

Juarez.” Bare Back Magazine. April 2024.

Jump.” Pink Disco Magazine 5. March 2024.

Love, Sex, and Death.” The Dalhousie Gazette 155(9): 16. February 2023.

The Mind and The Matter.” The Dalhousie Gazette 155(9): 12-13. February 2023.

Carried Away.” Sensual: An Erotic Life, January 2021.

Luscious Lola.” January 2021.

The Old Man in the Cave.” Rigorous 5(1), January 2021.  

A Nice Place to Visit.” Rigorous 4(4), December 2020.

Static.” Circlet Press Halloween Micro-Fiction, October 2020.

“Come Wander With Me.” Éditions Figures/Figures Publishing 1, September 2020.

“Borders of Salt.” Sinister Wisdom 115, January 2020.

“Gina, Across the Tracks.” Best Lesbian Erotica Vol. 4, Cleis Press: December 2019.

What You Need.” Black Feminist Collective, January 2019.

One for the Angels.” Rigorous 3(1), January 2019.

“Double or Nothing.” The Erotica Reader and Writers Association (ERWA) Anthology 2: Twisted Sheets, October 2018.

Walking Distance.” Rigorous 2(4), October 2018.

Two.” Rigorous 2(2), April 2018.

Perchance to Dream.” Rigorous 2(2), April 2018.

A World of Difference.” Rigorous 2(2), April 2018.

Queen of the Nile.” The Dispatch 1, February 2018.

The Long Morrow.” Roaring Gold, October 2017.

Of Soldiers and Soul Men: Beyond Vietnam.” Roaring Gold, August 2017.

The Sword.” VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, June 2017.

The Prince.” Voix Noire, May 2017.

The Ivory Tower and Kingdom Come.” Rigorous 1(2), May 2017.

Adrift.” The Coalition Zine, February 2017.

“The Incubus.” Fangs, Fur & Fantasies, November 2016.

“The Virgin Vera.” Step By Step, Vol. 2, August 2016.

“I Remember You.” Alpha Suits, February 2015.

“Night Nurse: Birthday.” Cupid’s Secrets, February 2015.

“Night Nurse: Spring Fling.” Spring Fling: KINKLECTIC: 7 Fresh Stories, April 2015.

“The Professor’s Pleasures.” Holiday Gems: Six Sexy Holiday Stories, November 2014.


Novels, Novellas, and Standalone Short Stories

Garden of Eden
Some Things Never Change
The Last Motel 
Talk to Me Baby 
The Game 
Details 
Weakened Pass 
Love at First Sight 
Liar’s Tale 
As She Wishes 
Like Father, Like Son 
Midnight Bells 
Weightless 
In the Blink of an Eye
The Cake
You Make Me Want to Wear Dresses

Black Bliss
Base Instinct
Conscious Craving
Endeavors & Endgames
Black Magic Woman
Layla’s Pride
Mine to Make
Settling Score
Guilty Kisses

Captive Instinct

SAMs & Sinners
Take Me to Church
Mercy Me

Leonora
Myra’s Mask
Petals
The Professor
Queen Esther