He is the author of Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature (Johns Hopkins Press), Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature (University of Georgia Press), The American Protest Essay and National Belonging (SUNY Press), and numerous essays and chapters on identity and social movements in American literature and culture. He serves on the editorial board of The James Baldwin Review (Manchester University Press), and co-edited with Piper Kendrix Williams Representing Segregation: The Aesthetics of Living Crow (SUNY Press). His most recent work is on the fiftieth anniversary of Freedom Summer and on literary collaboration.