She works on postcolonial theory and cultural studies of the global south with an emphasis on the Caribbean. Her book The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post- Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (Palgrave, 2004) won the Gordon and Sybil Lewis Award for Best Book in Caribbean Studies. She has also edited two volumes: Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (Macmillan, 2003) and The Legacies of Radical Politics in the Caribbean (Routledge, 2010).