She is a contributor to several volumes, including The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford UP, 1997) and The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel (Cambridge UP, 2004). Her work has appeared in African American Review, The Henry James Review, and Comparative American Studies Journal. She has co-edited New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 by Barbara Christian (U of Illinois P, 2007). She is the editor of the Penguin Classics edition William Wells Brown’s Clotel (2004) and of a series of Italian translations of African American novels.