Jarvis C McInnis

Rethinking the Plantation: Production and Boundary Caonditions in the Aftermath of Slavery · January 2017 Invited Talk Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA

What Makes it Cool to be Southern?: Re-Imagining Home and Self in the New Black American South · November 2016 Invited Talk American Studies Assocation Conference, Denver, CO

Marcus Garvey, the Plantation, and the Future of the Black World · June 2016 Invited Talk Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

The Afterlife of the Plantation: History, Erasure, and Dispossession in Attica Locke's - The Cutting Season · March 2016 Invited Talk Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, Boston, MA

The Global/Contemporary Symposium · March 31, 2017 Invited Talk University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Rethinking the Plantation: Production and Boundary Caonditions in the Aftermath of Slavery · January 2017 Invited Talk Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA

What Makes it Cool to be Southern?: Re-Imagining Home and Self in the New Black American South · November 2016 Invited Talk American Studies Assocation Conference, Denver, CO

Marcus Garvey, the Plantation, and the Future of the Black World · June 2016 Invited Talk Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Plantation Modernity · March 2016 Invited Talk Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, Boston, MA

Plantation Futures: Marcus Garvey and the Literary and Symbolic Economies of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute · March 2016 Invited Talk Department of African American Studies, Princeton University

A Plantation Reading Public - Special Session: Postcolonial Reading Publics · January 2016 Invited Talk Modern Language Association Conference, Austin, TX

Aestheticizing Labor, Performing Diaspora: Zora Neale Huston and the Scence of the Work Camp · November 2015 Lecture Department of African American Studies, The College of New Jersey

The Academic Job Market - Professional Development · November 2015 Invited Talk Barnard-Columbia Mellon Mays Writing Retreat,

10th Annual Faculty Forum on Race & Ethnicity. · October 2015 Invited Talk Center for Race & Ethnicity, Rutgers Unversity

Music, Sound, and Performance in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. - African American Literature: 1910-1945 · September 2015 Lecture The University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Myth and Memorialization: The Politics of Memorization - 2015 Callaloo Conference · June 2015 Other Brown University, Providence, RI

W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars Institute - William M. Phillips, Jr. Sunday Lecture Series · June 2015 Lecture Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Pursuing the Ph.D · June 2015 Invited Talk The Institute for Responsible Citizenship, Washington, DC

Literary Approcahes to Oral Narratives · March 2015 Lecture Social Science and Other Approaches to Studying Life History and Narrative Information, Columbia University

Literary Approaches to Oral Narratives - Social Science and Other Approaches to Studying Life History and Narrative Information · March 2015 Lecture Columbia University,

W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars Institute · 2015 Invited Talk Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

New Geographies of Black Fun: George W. Lee, Beale Street, and the Urban South · November 2014 Invited Talk American Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA

Writing/Creating from the Archive - Teh 2014 Callaloo Conference · October 2014 Invited Talk Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Aestheticizing Work, Visualizing Progress: Labor Agriculture and Domesticity in Booker T. Washington's Photographic Archive - The Futures of American Studies Institute · June 2014 Invited Talk Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

The Self-Determining Global Black South: Booker T. Washington and the US Occupation of Haiti - Currents of the Black Atlantic Conference · March 2014 Invited Talk CUNY , Graduate Center

African Diaspora Studies and the Concept of Transatlantic Studies - The 2013 Callaloo Conference · November 2013 Invited Talk Pembroke College, Oxford, UK

Toward a Black South Modernity: Zora Neale Hurston, Folk Culture, and hte African Diaspora - Modern Language Association Conference · January 2013 Invited Talk Boston, MA

Theorizing Black South Modernity: Zora Neale Hurston and the Transnational South · November 2012 Invited Talk American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, PR

Toward a Black South Modernity: Zora Neale Hurston, Folk Culture, and the African Diaspora · June 2012 Invited Talk Mellon Mays Graduate Student Summer Conference,

Theorizing Black Modernity: Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Nation-State · April 2012 Invited Talk Annual Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association Meeting and Reception, Columbia University

We the Machines Inside the Machine': Technology, the Black Body, and the State · October 2011 Invited Talk Producing Race: Technology and the African Diaspora, Columbia University

The Idea of Sound in Literature: Blues and the African American Literary Tradition - A History of Black Music · October 2011 Lecture Vassar College,

Singing Their Subjectivities: The Blues Queen Archetype as a Site of Sonic Culture Memory · April 2011 Invited Talk College Language Association Annual Convention,

Singing their Subjectivities: The Blues Queen Archetype as a Site of Sonic Cultural Memory · June 2010 Invited Talk Mellon Mays Graduate Student Summer Conference,

Crisis of the Black Intellectual: A New Millennial Update - Black History Month Symposium · February 2010 Invited Talk Princeton University,

Scholar to Scholar: Teacher-Student Collaborations · November 2009 Invited Talk South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA

Prolegomena to an Account of Mississippi AAE · April 2009 Invited Talk Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, New Orleans, LA

Richard Wright's 'Long Black Song' as Liberation Song · 2009 Invited Talk College Language Associatioon Annual Convention,

Service to the Profession

Member - African-American Studies Global Core Curriculum Committee · 2015 Committee Service Columbia University,

Assistant to the Editor · 2013 Editorial Activities Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters,

Co-Chair - African Americanist Colloquium · 2013 - 2014 Other Columbia University,

Panel Co-Organizer - The Transnational South · November 2012 Event/Organization Administration American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, PR

Research Assistant - Josef Sorett · 2012 Professional Development Introduction to African-American Studies, Columbia University

Member - African-American Studies Global Core Curriculum Committee · 2015 Committee Service Columbia University,

Assistant to the Editor · 2013 Editorial Activities Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters,

Co-Chair - African Americanist Colloquium · 2013 - 2014 Other Columbia University,

Panel Co-Organizer - The Transnational South · November 2012 Event/Organization Administration American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, PR

Research Assistant - Josef Sorett · 2012 Professional Development Introduction to African-American Studies, Columbia University

Chief Organizer & Conference Co-Chair - Producing Race: Technology and the African Diaspora · 2011 Event/Organization Administration Columbia University,

Founding Member - Workshop on Critical Approaches to Race & Ethnicity · 2009 - 2012 Event/Organization Administration

Member - Tougaloo College-Brown University Partnership Advisory Committee · 2007 - 2009 Committee Service Tougaloo College-Brown University,