In 2009, he won the UHD Award for Teaching Excellence. His writings on literature, film, and culture have appeared in African American Review, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Modern Fiction Studies, the Faulkner Journal, camera obscura, Gothic Studies, and Pedagogy, and he has a piece forthcoming from Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. He's currently at work on a manuscript about the film work of James E. Hinton, North America's first African American cinematographer.