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EMPLOYMENT
  • Director, Children's Literature Program, San Diego State University, 2022-present
  • Director, National Center for the Study of Children's Literature, 2022-present
  • Assistant Professor, English & Comparative Literature, SDSU, 2021-present
  • Graduate Student Instructor, Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, 2014-2021

​EDUCATION
  • PhD in Performance Studies; Designated Emphasis in New Media, UC Berkeley
  • MA in Folklore, UC Berkeley
  • MFA in Writing, Sarah Lawrence College
  • BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, University of Miami

​PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
  • Daley, Lashon. "When Diane Tells Me a Story. Meridians 1 October 2023; 22 (2): 503–515. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10637663
     
  • Daley, Lashon. "Censoring the “N-Word”: Issues When Teaching Early African American Children's Folktales." Teaching Equity through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms. Routledge, 2023. 33-46.
     
  • Kenly Brown, Lashon Daley, Derrika Hunt; “Disruptive Ruptures: The Necessity of Black/Girlhood Imaginary.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 1 April 2022; 21 (1): 75–100. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9554079​​Daley, Lashon.
     
  • "Coming of (R) age: A New Genre for Contemporary Narratives about Black Girlhood." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46.4 (2021): 1035-1056. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/713293​

SELECTED INVITED TALKS
  • “Chosen Kin: #Friendship Goals According to Nel and Sula in Toni Morrison’s Sula.” NEH Residential Summer Institute for High School Teachers, Boston University; July 2024. Invited presenter and workshop Leader.
     
  • “Coming of (R)age,” University of California, Davis, April 7, 2023. Keynote Speaker.
 
  • “Coming of (R)age,” Humanities Day, San Diego State University, March 21, 2023. Guest Speaker.​
 
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
  • "Black and Asian: Constructions of Blasian American Identity in Nicola Yoon's YA Novel, Everything, Everything." 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Seattle, WA; April 2024.​
     
  • "Part of Your World: Princess Ariel Learns to Code Switch in Disney's Live-Action Remake of The Little Mermaid." 2023 International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Congress on Ecologies of Childhood, Santa Barbara, CA; August 2023.​
     
  • “Ain’t i a gurl: identity, feminism and ideology through the lens of Black/Girlhood Imaginary.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN; November 2022.​
     
  • “Chosen Kin: #Friendship Goals According to Nel and Sula in Toni Morrison’s Sula.” NEH Residential Summer Institute for High School Teachers, Boston University; July 2022. Invited presenter and workshop Leader.
     
  • “Black Feminist (Auto)Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men,” Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, October 21, 2020

TEACHING INTERESTS
  • African American Children’s Literature
  • African American Folktales
  • Black Feminist Research Methods
  • Creative Writing
  • English Composition
  • Girlhood Studies
  • Performance Studies

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