Lectures + Courses
- “New Times, New Heroes: Reimagining Myth Through the Heroine’s Journey and Afrofuturism”, instructor of virtual course for Advanced Applied Myth Certificate Program, Pacifica Graduate, 2023 – 2025.
- “African Mythic Traditions to Afrofuturism Across Diaspora”, visiting professor, Pacifica Graduate Institute doctoral program, 2023 -2024.
- “Afrofuturism: Alternate Realities and Other Worlds in Contemporary Art”, lead instructor for adult education course at the Barnes Foundation, 2023.
- “AfroApocalypse: Signs of the Times and the Hope and Horrors of Black Futures” lead instructor for a 4-week course building on the Intro to Afrofuturism course I taught in 2020, Barnes Foundation, 2022.
- “Afrofuturism and Reparations”, co-faciliator for a collaborative lecture with Dr. David Ragland for Harvard University’s Divinity School, 2023 and 2024.
- “Afrofuturism and Heroine’s Journey in Contemporary Film”, lead instructor for a 4-week course presented as a part of Fleisher’s Found in Translation adult course series, 2023.
- “Ride or Die: The Black Cowboy and Urban Rider in Contemporary Art”, lead instructor of a 4-week course I developed exploring special topics for adult learners related to past exhibitions, Barnes Foundation, 2021.
- “New Myths in Black and Indigenous Art and Film: Feminine Paths to Becoming”, lead instructor for a 4-week course supporting “Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale”, an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2021.
- “30 Americans: Black Art Across Time, Space and Practice” lead instructor for 4-week course exploring exhibition of the same name, Barnes Foundation, 2019.