- Instructor of American Studies and Humanities, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics - Morganton
- Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia
- Associate Professor of English and Director of the PhD Program in Media, Art, and Text, Virginia Commonwealth University
- JD Professor in Medical Humanities and Associate Professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- Director of International Energy Partnerships, University of Minnesota--Institute on the Environment
- Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies, Women's and Gender Studies Program Chair, Lafayette College
- Founder and Director of Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind