Her recent publications include Performing Americanness: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern African-American and Jewish American Literature (2008) and articles in African American Review and the Journal of American Studies. She is currently working on a project that examines the representation of Harlem in 1920s and 1930s African American fiction as a site that facilitates breakdown of traditional gender roles (and thus allows African American women more "freedom") while disciplining black women and their bodies in very specific ways.