TEACHING

At the University of South Carolina I offer a range of courses including introductory surveys for both the Art History and African American Studies departments, as well as intermediate and upper-level seminars in African American art and art of the African Diaspora. 

Art of the U.S. South and Afro-Caribbean 

Sample texts: Imani Perry, South to America; Tiya Miles, All That She Carried; Dale Rosengarten, Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art

Afrofuturist + Afrosurrealist Art 

Sample texts: W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Comet”; Ishmael Reed, “NeoHooDoo Manifesto”; Ekow Eshun, ed., In the Black Fantastic; Elizabeth Hamilton, Charting the Afrofuturist imaginary in African American art

History of African American Art 

Sample texts: Frederick Douglass, “Pictures and Progress”; Freeman Henry Morris Murray, Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture

Introduction to Art of the Global African Diaspora 

Introduction to African American Studies: Arts and Cultural Foundations 

Freedom Papers: Narratives of Race and Nation 

History of Western Art II 

Contemporary Korean Art & Culture (study abroad Maymester course, co-led with Prof. Seulghee Lee)