Her first book The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, November 2011. She is currently working on a second book project entitled Black Movements: Performance, Politics, and Migration. She has published articles on James Baldwin, Alice Childress, and August Wilson. President of the Black Theater Association and co-founder of the New England Black Scholars Collective, Colbert’s interests span the 19th-21st centuries, from William Wells Brown to Beyoncé and from poetics to performance.