Her teaching and research focus on contemporary theater and performance with an emphasis on social justice, identity politics, and community formation. Her book manuscript, under contract with the University of Michigan Press, critically examines the work of the female artists of the Nuyorican Poets Café between 1973-2010. She has published articles in the African American Review, Public: A Journal of Imagining America, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, and Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS.