She is the author of many works that address the figure of the living-dead zombie, including the book The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death (Rutgers University Press, 2015), and is the editor of the forthcoming collection Zombie Theory: A Reader (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Her next book project turns from zombies as a figuration of slavery and slave revolt, which is her central interest in the monster, to literal commemorations of slave rebellion in literature, art, film, and digital culture.