Her research and teaching interests currently focus on African-American literary and comics studies. She is co-editor of Comics and the U.S. South, a collection from University Press of Mississippi that includes her own essay on the intersection between postmodern slave narrative conventions and horror comics in Swamp Thing and Bayou. Other academic publications include the book, “A God of Justice?”: The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black Literature, as well as articles in African American Review, Southern Literary Journal, and the Encyclopedia of Comics and Graphic Novels. She is also the promotion and communications coordinator for the International Comic Arts Forum. Her current project explores critical representations of race in 1950s comics.