She is trained as an interdisciplinary black studies scholar with emphases in diaspora theory, cultural theory, visual culture, performance studies, gender and sexuality, and literature. Her scholarly interests focus on representations and performances of nation, gender, and sexuality across the African diaspora with an emphasis on the Anglophone Caribbean. She has published in journals such as Meridians, Souls, Palimpsest, and the Black Scholar and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled In Plenty and In Time of Need: Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity.