She is the author of Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression (2011). She has published essays on race, gender and genre in journals such as American Literature, PMLA Journal, Women and Performance, African American Review, and Museum Anthropology. She is a collaborator with the Women Who Rock Project, for which she was awarded a 2014 Digital Commons Faculty Summer Fellowship, sponsored by the University of Washington Simpson Center for Humanities and funded by the Mellon Foundation.