She is the author of The Erotics of Talk: Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms and the editor of Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams. Her essays have appeared in American Literature, Modernism/Modernity, American Literary History, Yale Journal of Criticism, and elsewhere. She is currently writing Taxonomic Fever: Modernism, Romance and Identity Politics and editing “Feather Bed Resistance”: The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston.