(Sidewalking. Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, 2015; Writing Los Angeles. A Literary Anthology, 2002), author and editor of several books, columnist and former book critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Professor at USC Dornsife, Los Angeles.
(Living the California Dream. African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era, 2020), publicly engaged independent historian, and heritage conservation consultant, guest curator on the “Black California Dreamin’:Claiming SpaceatAmerica’s Leisure Frontier” exhibition at the California African AmericanMuseum in Los Angeles.
(Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction, 2002; The West Side of Any Mountain, 2005), Professor of English at Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles.
(Archiving an Epidemic. Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde, 2019), Professor of English and Director of the Fashion Studies Minor at Fordham University, New York.