Previous publications include "Petro-Magic-Realism: A Political Ecology of Nigerian Literature" (Postcolonial Studies), "The Pastoral Promise and the Political Imperative: The Plaasroman Tradition in an Era of Land Reform" (Modern Fiction Studies), and "Epic Struggles over India's Forests in Mahasweta Devi's Short Fiction" (Alif). The author of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anti-colonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (University of Chicago Press and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009), she is currently at work on a book project entitled "Reading for the Planet: World Literature and Environmental Crisis."