She has held faculty appointments at Stanford, SUNY-Albany, UIChicago, and Northwestern.Professor Holland is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke UP, 2000). She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture, UM, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006).She was instrumental in the republication of Lila Karp's The Queen is in the Garbage (1969) (Feminist Press, 2007), one of the first, second