Publications
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Books:
The Voice of Time: Classical German Thought and W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
Under contract with Northwestern University Press
Imagining Blackness in Germany and Austria (co-editor)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012
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Articles:
"Kant" (lexicon entry)
Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts, forthcoming
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“W. E. B. Du Bois in Berlin, 1926: Political Mourning, the Rise of the Worker, and a Pan-Africanist’s Rethinking of Blackness in Europe” link
German Studies Review 47, no. 3 (October 2024)
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“Race, Imperialism, and German Intellectual History: Reflections Toward a Rethinking of the Canon” link
Goethe Yearbook 31 (2024)
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“Reason Has Its Epochs: Schiller, Goethe, Golgotha, and the Intertextual Construction of the Absolute in Hegel” link
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 96, no. 1 (March 2022)
(Recipient of the Goethe Society of North America’s Essay Prize for best article of 2022 on eighteenth-century German literature)
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“Thinking Outside of Philosophy: Goethe, Lévi-Strauss, Propp” link
German Quarterly 94, vol. 4 (Fall 2021)
“Du Bois and Marx, Du Bois and Marxism” link
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 17, no. 1 (Spring 2020)
“Another, Higher Understanding: Goethe’s Late Kantianism, Makarie, and the Absolutes of Gender in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre” link
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 94, no. 1 (March 2020)
“Towards Goethean Anthropology: On Morphology, Structuralism, and Social Observation” link
Goethe Yearbook 27 (2020)
(Recipient of the Goethe Society of North America’s Richard Sussman Prize for best article of 2020 on Goethe and science)
“A Discourse of a Different Kind: On Fabulation and Method in Goethe’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten” link
Monatshefte 108, no. 4 (Winter 2016)
“Constructions of Goethe Versus Constructions of Kant in German Intellectual Culture, 1900–1925” link
Goethe Yearbook 21 (2014)
“Senghor’s Other Europe” link
Savannah Review 1 (2012)
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