She probes the literary constructions of eroticized and sexualized images of bodies for the promotion and propagation of identity politics and nationalistic awareness in former French colonies from the Caribbean and West Africa. She has published articles on women writers, on questions of diasporic identities, memory, and exile as well as on issues of nationhood, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and violence in colonial and postcolonial societies. In May 2014, L’Harmattan published in the series Autrement Mêmes her critical edition of MAÏOTTE : Roman Martiniquais inédit by Jenny Manet, first published in1896. In May 2016, Liverpool University press University will publish her upcoming monograph Dangerous Creole Liaisons: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses from 1806 to 1897.