Her first book, Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2017. She is currently writing an intellectual history of the relationship between race and lyric theory titled “Black Reading.” She has written essays for American Literature, Race and Real Estate (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015), A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), and the New York Times Book Review.