Her research interests in the intellectual history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean; the intellectual and cultural histories of the African Diaspora; and gender, sexuality, and national sovereignty in the late twentieth-century and twenty-first-century novel and popular culture, are reflected in published articles as well as Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (2002), and the collection of essays she edited entitled Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean (2011).She is working on a book about Caribbean people's conceptions of modernity across multiple registers, and their visions of the future between the 1890s and the First World War, entitled "Whose Modern?"