She teaches African-language literatures, black film studies, popular culture, oral literature and visual culture. She is the author of African-language Literatures: Perspectives on isiZulu Fiction and Popular Black Television Series, a timely critical intervention into the aesthetic hiatus in the field. She has published extensively on aesthetics, literature, popular culture and media in South Africa. She was a fellow in the 2012-13 University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Program and is currently studying black opera in post-1994 South Africa.