Her research focuses on the interrelationships between gender, sexuality, race, and class, particularly as they intersect with urban geographies and cultural memory. Her book project Intimate Cities: Black Women’s Urban Literature After WWII addresses these overlapping issues. Her recent article “Black American Girls in Paris: Sex, Race, and Cosmopolitan Desire in Andrea Lee’s Sarah Phillips and Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl in Paris” is published in Contemporary Women’s Writing journal.