She has been a Fellow of the Cornell Society for the Humanities and Melville Society. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Dialogos: A Journal of Latino Studies; Mapocho: Revista de Humanidades; UCLA Thinking Gender Papers and in the anthology Islam and Postcolonial Discourse: Purity and Hybridity. Her research interests include theories of democracy, citizenship, and rights; literature and law; political philosophy; early and nineteenth-century American literature, including African-American and hemispheric American literatures; critical theory and continental philosophy; and postcolonial studies.