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Rhetoric and public address; rhetorical theory and criticism; African American history, culture and communication; womanist epistemology and methodology; the rhetoric of spirituality; intercultural/multicultural communication; pedagogy.
Editor, Afrocentric Visions: Studies in Culture and Communication. Sage Publications, 1998.
"Assessing Womanist Thought: The Rhetoric of Susan L. Taylor," Communication Quarterly, Vol. 48, Fall 2001.
"When Does A Group Become 'A Group'?: Solving the Puzzle," Communication Teacher, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 2001.
"Quiet Strength-Inner Peace: Spirituality in the Academy," Values Newsletter, Spring 1998, Vol. 5, Issue 2, http://vesta.bloomu.edu/~values
"Fannie Lou Hamer: The Unquenchable Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement," The Journal of Black Studies, May 1996.
"Religious Discourse As Cultural Narrative: A Critical Analysis of the Rhetoric of African American Sermons," The Western Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 1994.
"Editorial Sessions: A Different Approach to Teaching Argumentation," The Speech Communication Teacher, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 1994.
"The Reason Why We Sing: Understanding African American Worship," in Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston and Victoria Chen (eds.) Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity and Communication. Roxbury Press, third ed., 2000.
"Giving the Sistas' Their Due: The Lived Experiences of African American Women in Academia," in Trevy MacDonald and Trevellya Ford-Ahmed, Nature of a Sista': Black Women's Lived Experiences in Contemporary Culture. Carolina Press, 1998.
"Understanding African American Communication: Manifestations of Nommo," in Janice D. Hamlet (ed.) Afrocentric Visions: Studies in Culture and Communication. Sage Publications, 1998.
"Understanding Traditional African American Preaching," in Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston and Victoria Chen (eds.) Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity and Communication. Roxbury Press, first ed. (1993); second ed. (1997).
Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen by Lisa Anderson. The Western Journal of Black Studies, Summer 1999, Vol. 23, No. 2.
The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985 by Henry Lewis Suggs, ed. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Summer 1997, Vol. 74, No.2.
I have presented competitively selected and invited papers at international, national, state and regional conferences focusing on the rhetoric of African American women; African American preachers; womanist epistemology and methodology; afrocentric perspectives on human communication; African American women and spirituality; spirituality in academia; and multiculturalism.
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