Dr. John is the author of Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing (Duke Press & UWI Press), and she is currently finishing The Just Society and the Diasporic Imagination. She has published in film studies, gender studies, hip-hop, and classroom pedagogy. She has received three teaching awards, the Irene Rothbaum Award (2004), the Good Teaching Award (2012), and the General Education Teaching Award (2018). She is currently faculty-in-residence in Adams Center.