Straddling the fields of postcolonial cultural studies and young people’s texts and cultures, her work often focuses on literary, filmic, and other cultural representations of youth in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. She has published in journals including Postcolonial Text, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, and Adaptation, and is currently working on a scholarly monograph entitled Reading Urban Poverty: Children and Youth, Global Visual Culture, and Postcolonial Counter-Imaginaries.