She is a scholar of African American, Black Canadian, and black diasporic literature and her work has been published in Callaloo, African American Review, Journal of Black Studies, and Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies. Her book, Shades of Gray: Writing the New American Multiracialism (Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2018) examines black-white multiracialism in 21st-century African American literature. She holds BA (Hons), MA, and PhD degrees.