Her research areas include Caribbean literature and hemispheric approaches to the literatures of the Americas, as well as theories of diaspora and transnationalism. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Interventions, Ariel and The Journal of West Indian Literature. She is co-editor with Rachel Adams (Columbia University) of a special issue of Comparative American Studies on “Canada and the Americas”, and she is currently co-editing with Winfried Siemerling (Université de Sherbrooke) an essay collection entitled Canada and its Americas: Transnational Navigations. Her book Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas was published in 2007 by the University of Virginia Press.