Research and Publications


Martin, Kameelah. Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work & Other Such Hoodoo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, forthcoming (Dec 2012).

Samuel, Kameelah Martin. “Disney’s Tia Dalma: A Critical Interrogation of the ‘Imagineered’ Priestess.” Black Women, Gender, and Families. Vol. 6, no. 1(Spring 2012):97-122.

---. “Rethinking Ishmael Reed: Neo-Hoodoo Womanist Text?” On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed:
Contemporary Reassessments. Eds. Paul Kareem Tayyar and Sämi Ludwig. Huntington Beach, CA: World Parade Books, forthcoming 2012. (reprint)

---. “Charles W. Chesnutt and the Legacy of The Conjure Woman.” Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Placing A Stamp on
America. Ed. Mary B. Zeigler. Spec. issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination. 43.2 (Fall 2010): 15-30. (invited)

---. “Rethinking Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo: Neo-Hoodoo Womanist Text?” College Language Association Journal
52.2 (Dec. 2008) 111-131. (peer-reviewed)

---. “Introduction to the Special Issue.” Serving the Spirits: Women and Voodoo in Literature and Popular Culture.
Eds. Kim Wells and Kameelah Martin Samuel. Spec. issue of Women Writers: A Zine. (Aug. 2008).
<http://www.womenwriters.net/aug08/jpr_interview.html >. (invited)

---. “Women and Voodoo: A Conversation with Jewell Parker Rhodes.” Serving the Spirits: Women and Voodoo in
Literature and Popular Culture. Eds. Kim Wells and Kameelah Martin Samuel. Spec. issue of Women Writers: A Zine. (Aug. 2008). <http://www.womenwriters.net/aug08/jpr_interview.html >.  (invited)

Martin, Kameelah. “Ansa, Tina McElroy.” African American National Biography.  Cambridge: Oxford University
Press, 2008. 50-51.

---. “Nunez, Elizabeth.” African American National Biography. Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2008. 172-173.

---. “Hip Hop Soap Box: Pullin’ tha Race Card in Mos Def’s ‘Mr. Nigga’.” Revolutions of the Mind: Cultural Studies in
the African Diaspora Project. Edited by Dionne Bennett and Candace Moore.  Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles CAAS Publications, 2003: 111-115.


Works in Progress
Scholarly Monographs
Envisioning Voodoo: African Diasporic Religion in the Popular Imagination,1985-2010—manuscript in progress.

Scholarly Articles/Book Chapters:
“Religion and Spirituality.” Section Co-Editor with Elizabeth J. West. The Routledge Anthology of African American Rhetoric: Debates, Histories, and Performances. Vershawn Young, Michelle Bachelor Robinson, and Carmen Kynard, General Editors. NY: Routledge—in progress.   

 “Hoodoo Ladies and High Conjurers: New Directions for an Old Archetype.” Literary Expressions of African Spirituality.  Eds. Carol Marsh-Lockett and Elizabeth J. West—accepted, manuscript under review with University of South Carolina Press.

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