Just released was her book Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals and Fantasies of Conquest (Minnesota 2007), an analysis of how island castaway tales presented fantasies that made the expansion of empire more palatable. Her current work, Sorry Deeds, Guilty Dreams: Writing, Remorse and Reparation in the Post-Settler Colony, is a comparative project analyzing Australian, South African, Canadian and U.S. settler literatures for how certain stories helped those cultures to process the guilt from the displacement and oppression of indigenous peoples during colonial settlement.