Her research and teaching interests include postcolonial literature and studies in cosmopolitanism and human rights. At OSU, she has co-taught an Honors seminar in which she introduces students to cultural histories of food in South Africa, as well as to studies of how economic policies shape the contemporary geography of food security in that nation. That course inspired an essay that examines questions of food security, human rights, and gender in novels by the South African writer Zakes Mda. Contact