She writes on Black Diasporic Gothic Literature, American Horror Film Studies, and the Gothic in American political discourses. She is the author of African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Spaces (Palgrave) as well as numerous essays, including “Slave Narratives and Slave Revolts,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Southern Gothic, “Torture Porn and Uneasy Feminisms: Re-thinking (Wo)men in Eli Roth’s Hostel Films” in Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, “Text as Gothic Murder Machine: The Cannibalism of Sawney Bean and Sweeney Todd,” in Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics, and “Southern Horrors and Black Gothic” forthcoming in Box of Bones. In addition to co-editing two collected volumes, she is at work on a monograph Voodoo Queens and Zombie Lords: Haiti in American Horror Cinema.