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Teaching Experience
1999 - Present Professor of English and African American Studies
Chair, Department of English
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the Humanities (1999-2005) Chair and Director, African American Studies Program and Center, 1999-2003
Wesleyan University
1996 - 1999 Professor of American and African American Literature
University of California, San Diego
1990 - 1995 Professor of English & African American Studies (Jan - Dec 1995)
Associate Professor of English & African American Studies (1993-94);
(Chair, African American Studies; Director, Center for African American Studies, 1993-94); Associate Professor of English & Women's Studies (1992-93); Assistant Professor of English & Women's Studies (1991-92); Research Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
1986 - 1990 Instructor of English, Bridgewater State College
1981 - 1984 Lecturer in English, Tufts University (part-time)
Instructor of English and Creative Writing, Emerson College (part-time)
Fall 1977 Instructor of English, Southeastern Massachusetts University (part-time)
1975 - 1977 Instructor/Counselor, Urban Educational Center, Rhode Island College
1974 - 1975 Instructor of English, Hamilton College
Summers Instructor, Transitional Summer Program
1972 - 1975 Brown University
1981 - 1984 Lecturer in English, Tufts University (part-time) Instructor of English and Creative Writing, Emerson College (part-time)
Fall 1977 Instructor of English, Southeastern Massachusetts University (part-time)
1975 - 1977 Instructor/Counselor, Urban Educational Center, Rhode Island College
1974 - 1975 Instructor of English, Hamilton College
Summers Instructor, Transitional Summer Program
1972 - 1975 Brown University