Invited Talks/Keynotes/Lectures/ Workshops

Across campuses, conferences, and community spaces, I’ve been invited to share my work at the intersection of performance, Black cultural expression, and interdisciplinary pedagogy. These talks and workshops are opportunities to engage a wide range of audiences—from students to scholars to artists—around the themes that animate my teaching and research.

Whether I’m speaking about digital storytelling, Black feminist performance, or creative approaches to curriculum design, I aim to foster dialogue, spark curiosity, and share tools that empower others in their own work. My priority is teaching all students more about the field of Black performance studies. However, there are specific moments in which I am requested to explore various themes in horror, Black feminism, and expressions of joy based on my previous public productions or published works. I still aim to integrate some aspect of performing into those presentations.

This page includes a small highlight of invited presentations and workshops that reflect the breadth of my public scholarship and collaborative practice since working at Xavier. More examples can be found on my CV.

Black Horror

My talks on Black Horror explore how performance, film, and cultural storytelling present Blackness as spectacle, threat, survival, and resistance. I examine how horror becomes a site for negotiating racial memory, embodiment, and power. In invited lectures and festival conversation, I offer an interdisciplinary analysis that bridges Performance Studies, Black feminist thought, and visual culture.

Black Feminism

My Black feminist lectures center lived experience as theory and performance as method. I explore how embodiment, care, identity, and intersectionality shape cultural production and scholarly practice. I offer frameworks that connect Black feminist thought to everyday life, archives, and digital spaces.

Embodied Workshops

My embodied workshops invite participants to think through movement, voice, and collaborative creation. These sessions focus on performance as a tool for reflection, storytelling, and critical inquiry. Whether facilitating classroom engagements, creative intensives, or professional development sessions, I guide participants in putting theory into practice through interactive, process-based exercises.

I sometimes offer free workshops at other institutions with limited resources. I believe in meeting students where they are and fostering creative opportunity.