Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century. University of Illinois Press. October 2016.

Early African American Women Writers and Their Libraries. Under Review.

Book Award

2018 Children's Literature Association Honor Book Award for Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century (2016)

Published Articles

“Imagining Freedom: Black Girlhood in the Sanders-Venning Family, 1815–1890,” Global History of Black Girlhood. Eds. Corinne Fields and LaKisha Michelle Simmons. Chapel Hill: University ofNorth Carolina Press. 2022.

“Frances E. W. Harper and her Contemporaries.” Nineteenth Century American Literature: In Transition,1820-1860. Ed. Justine Murison. Cambridge Univ. Press.  2022.

“Post-Civil War Black Childhoods.” African American Literature: In Transition, 1865- 1880. Ed.Joycelyn Moody and Eric Gardner. Cambridge University Press. 2021.

“Black Girl Intimacies in Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (1972)” The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research. December 2020.

Nazera Sadiq Wright, “Race in Early American Children’s Literature.” Children's Literature and Culture,Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 2020. Web.

<http://www.childrensliterature.amdigital.co.uk/ResearchTools/Essays/EthnicityRace>.

“Ntozake Shange and a Literary of Genealogy of Black Girlhood," Ntozake Shange Special Issue. CollegeLanguage Association Journal. Ed. Trimiko Melancon. 62.1 March 2020.

“Saving Me Softly: A Black Girl in Japan.” Lauryn Hill Reader. Eds. Bettina Love and Billye Sankofa Waters. NewYork, NY: Peter Lang. November 2018.

“Black Girlhood in Early American Children’s Print Culture.” Common-Place: The Journal of Early AmericanLife. Volume 18 no. 2 Spring 2018.

“’Our Hope is in the Rising Generation’: Locating African American Children’s Literature in the “Children’s Department” of the Colored American.” Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900. Eds. Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane.University of Minnesota Press. (2017).

“Maria W. Stewart’s ‘The First Stage of Life’: Black Girlhood in the Repository of Religion and Literature, and of Science and Art (1858-1861). MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-EthnicLiterature of the United States. Special Issue on African American Print Culture (Fall 2015) 40 (3): 150-175 Eds. Joycelyn Moody and Howard Rambsy.

“Black Girlhood and Representative Citizenship.” From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle Class Performance. eds. Vershawn Young and Bridget Harris-Tsemo. Wayne State University Press. 91-106. 2011.

Archival Essays and Finding Aids

• “Amelia Earhart’s Palm Print and Analysis of her Character Prepared by Nellie Simmons Meier, 28 June 1933” from Words and Deeds in American History, Library of Congress’s American Memory Project, 1997.
• “Shaker Religious Greeting, Watercolor, January 1853” from Words and Deeds in American History, Library of Congress’s American Memory Project 1997.
• Prepared and revised the register of the Theodore Roosevelt papers for the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, 1998.
• Prepared and revised the register of the Nellie Simmons Meier papers for the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, 1998.
• Prepared and revised the register of the Blackwell Family papers for the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, 1998.

National Fellowships