Areas of Research/Interest: Twentieth-century Black Diasporic literature and culture; women, gender, and sexuality; trauma and migration; visual culture

Select Publications:
"Jean Toomer's Cane and the Erotics of Mourning." Southern Literary Review Journal 40.2 (Spring 2008)

"The Performance of Trauma in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions." Africanizing Knowledge. Eds. Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings. Somerset, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002.