Talks & Presentations

2025

“Mystical Islam and the Black Speculative Imagination,” University of Michigan, Dearborn

“Mise en Scene in African Diasporic Literature,” University of Michigan, Dearborn

“Islamic Influences in African Diasporic Speculative Literature,” Butler University

“AI, Technology, and Communication in Afro-Futurist Short Fiction,” Butler University

2024

Presenter, “Citation Chaining & The Scholarly Conversation,” UCSB

2022

Panelist, “Being Black and Muslim in Publishing,” AWP Conference

Keynote Speaker, “Muslim Futuristic Fiction,” Inaugural Muslim Futurism Conference

Presenter, “Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena: An Exploration in Attachment Theory and Object Relations in the Neurodiverse Mind,” UCSB Literature and the Mind Foundations

UCSB Read's Sci-Fi Writing Workshop: Estrangement and The Novum

2021

Presenter, “Argument Essay Structure in Ted Chaing’s Exhalation,” UCSB

Presenter, “The Sun Was Low: Collisions of Separateness and Isolation in George Elliot’s Middlemarch,” UCSB

Presenter, “Black Male Interiority in James Weldon Johnsons’ The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” UCSB

2019

Presenter, “Ancient African Androcentric Blood Covenants in Tananarive Due’s The Living Blood,” UCSB

2015

Panelist, “Fire & Clay: Humans & Jinn in Islam, Africa, & America,” Mystic Motherland Conference (Islamic Spirits, African Pasts, & Diaspora Politics Panel), IKHLAS Center University of Michigan, Ann Arb