Her first book Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary was published by Ohio State University Press in 2014. She is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Haitian Studies, American Quarterly, Callaloo, French Forum, Journal of Romance Studies, Research in African Literatures, and Small Axe. She has received fellowships from the Ford, Mellon Mays, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundations. She is also a board member, lecturer and performer for A Long Walk Home, Inc., a non-profit organization that uses art to educate, inspire, and mobilize young people to end violence against girls and women. Her current book project approaches Haitian diasporic cultural production by bringing together performance studies, gender studies, and visual culture.