She is author of Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Post-slavery Plantation (University of North Carolina, 2007), and coeditor of several other volumes. Her most recent book project is Guantánamo and American Empire: The Humanities Respond, coedited with Dr. Don Walicek (Director of Linguistics, UPR–Río Piedras), forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in a variety of publications.