Her scholarly interests focus on literacy in African American community spaces and in composition theory and pedagogy. Her publications include Everyone’s an Author (co-authored with Andrea Lunsford, Lisa Ede, Carole Clark Papper, and Keith Walters), A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and A Literacy Tradition in African American Churches, Literacies across Communities (edited collection), and Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom (co-edited with Nels Highberg and Melissa Nicolas).