Her research and teaching interests include race, gender, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, black feminist studies and black sexualities. Her current manuscript, being developed from her dissertation, Now That’s a Good Girl: Discourses of African American Women, HIV/AIDS, and Respectability draws upon black feminist theory, black queer studies, and HIV/AIDS cultural studies to examine discursive representations of African American women and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Focusing on three salient epidemiological time periods during the epidemic for black women (the late eighties, mid-nineties, and post- 2001), she examines concurrent responses within African American popular discourses and the ways in which responded to and framed the epidemic in black Americans.