She specializes in contemporary Caribbean literature with a focus on the relationship between narrative, trauma, and sexual politics. Her dissertation, which she is developing into a book manuscript entitled Trauma, Shame and Silence in Caribbean Women’s Writing, argues that body and sexual politics function as forms of micro-trauma that engender conditions ranging from shame to psychosis. Her research and teaching interests include Caribbean and post-colonial literature, Anglophone African literature, and women’s and gender studies. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Restoration, Studies in Gothic Fiction, and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. She is currently working on a book length project that explores body modification and sexual censorship in twenty-first century Afro-diasporic literature.