Scholarship
“Ovid Rewritten: Objectification, Fragmentation, and Transformation in the Writing of Toni Morrison and Robin Coste Lewis.”
— Stanford Arcade Colloquium: New Directions in Thing Theory in Literary Studies. March, 2022.
Commentary on the May/June 1903 issue of the Colored American Magazine
— The Digital Colored American Magazine. February 2026.
Current Projects
Grace is currently working towards multiple publication projects which capture a wide range of her interests.
She has a forthcoming chapter in an edited volume, Classical Reception in Cosmetics Advertising, for Bloomsbury entitled “Black, Bronze, and Copper Venus: The Racial Implications of Classicizing Cosmetics.” This grew out of the work from the “I’m Your Venus” scholarly conference in 2022.
Grace has recently contributed an entry to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women and Gender History on “Black Women in the North American Literary Tradition.”
She has also provided a commentary piece for the fabulous Digital Humanities project “The Digital Colored American Magazine.” This commentary seeks to provide a scholarly entry point for a particular issue of the magazine.
Finally, she is pursuing research for a piece called “Afrodisiacs” which focuses on the relationship between sugar, beauty, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison.
