His research focuses on blackness as transnational politics and culture. He has translated the French treatise Free Jazz/Black Power by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli (Mississippi UP: 2015), and co-edited a scholarly edition of Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke UP: 2013). His articles have been published in Atlantic Studies, Studies in American Fiction, the African American Review, and Criticism. He is currently finishing a monograph entitled: The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (University of Georgia Press).