SELECTED APPEARANCES
- “Slavery with a Capital H: Hegelianism and Subversion in Charles Johnson’s The Middle Passage” presented at the American Studies Association conference in 2004, as part of the panel “Slavery in the Contemporary Imagination: The Neoslave Narrative Genre.”
- “Bragging Rights!” presented at SF Unified School District Training, April 2010.
- Jackson, Y., Johnson, T., Askia, A. (2010) Kids Teaching Kids. Educational Leadership, 68 (1), 60-63.
- Ypsilon Theatre Prague, July 2012.
- Decatur Book Festival, September 2012.
- Prairie Lights, September 2012.
- New Orleans Room 220, September 2012.
- Cutting Edge Music Festival, September 2012.
- WWNO (NPR affiliate), September 18, 2012.
- Tom Dent Literary Festival, November 2012.
- Louisiana Book Festival, October 2012.
- Faulkner Society Words and Music Festival, November 2012. Panelist and key interviewer for Literature and Lunch with Ernest J. Gaines.
- Decatur Book Festival, September 1, 2012
- Booksmith, September 13, 2012
- September Diesel Books, 14, 2012
- Octavia Books, September 20, 2012
- Rising Tide Bloggers Conference, September 22, 2012
- Prairie Lights Bookstore, September 24, 2012
- Maple Street Bookstore (uptown), September 27, 2012
- Maple Street Bookstore (mid-city), September 29, 2012
- WRBH, December 22, 2012
- WMUK (NPR affiliate), February 6, 2013
- Portage Library in conjunction with the Racial Healing Initiative, February 9, 2013
- New Orleans Public Library, February 25, 2013
- KMSU Weekly Reader Interview, March 1, 2013
- Stalking the Golem: The Prague Summer Program’s 20th Anniversary, AWP, March 8, 2013
- Yoga and the Life of the Writer, AWP, March 8, 2013
- Franklin Park reading series, March 11, 2013
- Story Week, Wildly Imaginative Voices and Visions panel, March 19, 2013
- BACC, March 23, 2013
- Dick Gordon’s The Story (NPR syndicated show), March 25, 2013
- PEN/Faulkner Ceremony, April 4, 2013
- M-Live Book Club, April 25, 2013
- SCWP Panel: The Sentence, May 4, 2013
- Louisiana Book Festival, November 2, 2013
- Faulkner Society Pirates Alley Festival, December 6, 2013
- SIBA, September 20, 2014
- Lyrics and Dirge, October 15, 2014
- NCIBA, October 23, 2014
- Waterford, MI, November 15, 2014
- Winter Institute, February 10, 2015
- City Lights Bookstore, February 17, 2015
- Books Inc. Berkeley, February 18, 2015
- Kepler’s Books, February 20, 2015
- Octavia Books, February 21, 2015
- Square Books, February 22, 2015
- Georgia Center for the Book, February 24, 2015
- Prairie Lights, February 25, 2015
- Soho House, February 26, 2016
- Tavis Smiley, February 8, 2016
- Vorres Gallery, April 14, 2015
- LA Book Festival, April 18, 2015
- Bookcourt, Brooklyn, May 31, 2015
- Stories on Stage, Sacramento, July 31, 2015
- WMUK Between the Lines, August 21, 2015
- Elliot Bay Bookstore, September 9, 2015
- Powell’s Books, September 10, 2015
- Bookpeople, September 11, 2015
- Busboys and Poets, September 14, 2015
- Brooklyn Book Festival, September 20, 2015
- Franklin Park, September 21, 2015
- PEN/Faulkner Gala, October 4, 2015
- LitQuake SF, October 10, 2015
- WRBH, October 15, 2015
- Elgin Community College, October 22, 2015
- Spring Creek Residency, October 24-29, 2015
- Louisiana Book Festival, October 31, 2015
- OSU Corvallis, November 5, 2015
- Bend, OR. Library, November 8, 2015
- Rancho Mirage Writer’s Festival, January 24, 2016
- Tattered Cover Denver, January 29, 2016
- Berkeley Public Library Annual Gala, January 6, 2016
- Rising Nights Conference, ASU, February 18-10, 2016
- Book Passage Book Club, Corte Madeira, February 29, 2016
- Stanford, April 26, 2016
- Townsend Prize Keynote Speech, April 28, 2016
- Kepler’s Books w/ Walter Mosely, June 16, 2016
- Tin House Workshops, January 20-23, 2017
- Yale-NUS Singapore, January 24-28, 2017
- American Book Review Reading Series, March 9, 2017
- College of Charleston, Crazy Horse Reading Series, February 23, 2017
- U.C. Berkeley English Department Commencement Speech, May 22, 2017
- Bay Area Book Festival, June 4, 2017