Her teaching and research interests include African American Literature and Southern Literature, particularly twentieth and twenty-first-century cultural productions that filter historical traumas through images, spectacles, and performances of social, racial, gender, regional, and national identities. She is currently working on a manuscript about voodoo aesthetics for McFarland and has published articles and chapters on William Faulkner and African American Literature. She is involved with Digital Yoknapatawpha and is currently working on forming teaching strategies for the digital humanities project. She has been an active participant of SAMLA since graduate school and is currently serving on SAR’s prize selection committee for SAMLA.