Articles and Essays

“Open Heart, Wise Heart: The Life and Teachings of Ruth King.” Lion’s Roar Magazine, March 26, 2024.

https://www.lionsroar.com/the-life-teachings-of-ruth-king/

“Digging Deep: Reflections on Haitian People Seeking Refuge in Mexico City from Violence at Home.” EMU Today, April 24, 2024

https://today.emich.edu/story/featurephoto/12704

“Workings of the Spirit: The Goddess Ezili in The Love Wanga (1935)” ProudFlesh Journal No. 24 (2021): 22-40. 

“Techniques for Truth-telling from Haitian Corner to I Am Not Your Negro” in I Am Not Your Negro: A Docalogue, eds. Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs. Taylor & Francis/Routledge: Oxfordshire, 2020: 72-85.

“I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired.” Eastern Michigan University Magazine. Summer 2020 https://today.emich.edu/magazine/article/11426

“Of Bosal and Kongo: Exploring the Evolution of the Vernacular in Contemporary Haiti.” Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 41.1 (2018): 47-64.

“Looking for Transwonderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Migration of the Heart” in The Contemporary African Migration Narrative, Eds. Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018: 160-172.

“Reading the Spirits in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti.” Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, vol. 23, issue. 2 (2017): 233-254. 

“Under the Photographer’s Gaze.” in Remembrance. After the Quake / Re-Mémoire. Après le Séisme, eds. Claudine Michel, Nadège Clitandre, Marlène Racine-Toussaint, and Florence Bellande Robertson. UCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 2017: 223-228.  

“‘Addressing the Negro Problem’: Rethinking the ‘Coon’ and the ‘Mammy’ in King of the Zombies and Revenge of the Zombies.” Black Camera: An International Film Journal vol. 8, no. 1(Fall 2016): 27-54.

“Wounds Seen and Unseen: The Workings of Trauma in Raoul Peck’s Haitian Corner and Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker.” Journal of Haitian Studies vol. 22, no. 1 (Fall 2016): 19-45.

“‘A Lion at Pendleton’: Charles Johnson’s Reimagining of a Moment.” Obsidian: Literature and Arts of the African Diaspora 41.1-2 (Spring 2016): 195-208.

“The Fight for the Nation in Arnold Antonin’s Zombi candidat à la présidence … ou les amours d’un zombi.” Sites: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Special Issue, Eds. Martin Munro and Charles Forsdick. 19. 3 (June 2015): 284-292.

“Lòt Bò and Anba Dlo: The Dialectics of Raoul Peck’s Désounen: Dialogue with Death” in Raoul Peck: Power, Politics and the Cinematic Imagination, eds. Toni Pressley-Sanon and Sophie Saint-Just. Lantham: Lexington Books, 2015: 217-231.

“Haitian (Pre)Occupations: Ideology and Discursive Repetitions: 1915-1934 and 2004 to Present” Caribbean Studies Journal (June-December 2014): 115-153.

“Up Through the Cracks: Raoul Peck’s Moloch Tropical and the Ghosts of Haitian History.” Cultural Dynamics (November 2014): 1-27.

“Watching You Watching Me: The Work of the Gaze in Two Dany Laferrière Films.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 31:6 (2014): 597-610.

“Witnessing as Revolutionary Praxis in Raoul Peck’s Films.” Black Camera: An International Film Journal. 5.1 (October 2013): 34-55.

“One Plus One Equals Three: Marasa Consciousness, the Lwa and Three Stories.” Research in African Literatures, 44.3 (Fall 2013):118-137. 

“Exile, Return, Ouidah, and Haiti: Vodun’s Workings on the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié.” African Arts Journal. 46.3 (August 2013): 40-53.

“Lucid Cameras: Imaging Haiti After the Earthquake.” Journal of Haitian Studies. 17.2 (Fall 2011): 6-31.

“Raoul Peck’s The Man by the Shore”: Orality, Film and Repression.” Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. No. 8 (Fall 2011): 154-168.

“Acting Out: Performing Memory of the Slave Trade in Ouidah, Benin Republic.” Journal of Pan-African Studies, 4.5 (September 2011): 57-79