Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Her recent publications include "African-British Writers: Champions of Freedom," Equiano: Enslavement, Resistance and Abolition; "Troubling the Archives: Reconstituting the Slave Subject," Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les avatars contemporains des recits d'esclaves; and ''Reading the Two Marys (Prince and Shelley) on the Textual Meeting Ground of Race, Gender, and Genre,'' Tennessee Studies in Literature.