Her research interests include modern American drama, the work of Gao Xinjian, contemporary fiction by ethnic and immigrant writers in the U.S. and the Anglophone Caribbean, postcolonial theory, and multiculturalism. Her articles have been published in MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States and MaComere: The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars.