She has published articles is such journals as Modern Fiction Studies and Religion and Literature. Her recent publications include a 7,000 word critical biography on the noted cultural theorist bell hooks in Dictionary of Literary Biography series, and a forthcoming article entitled "In the Shadow of Streetlights: Loss, Restoration, and the Performance of Identity in Black Women’s Literature of the City," in Alizes, Journal of the Universite de La Reunion, France. Her book, Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature ( University of Missouri Press, Fall 2002) now available at www.amazon.com, is a study on the recurring theme of scarring and disfigurement in African American literature of the 19th and 20th century.