She is the author of Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts: Women's Writing and Decolonization. (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1999) and numerous critical essays on the work of various British and postcolonial writers, including A.S. Byatt, Jean Rhys, Wilson Harris, Peter Carey. Pauline Melville, and Dionne Brand. She teaches British modernist, postcolonial, and women's literatures