A book-length manuscript that explores the cultural implications of vampires in African diasporic folk traditions and investigates the recent proliferation of narratives by writers of African descent who take up the demonic character and reconfigure it to urge for female empowerment and mobility

Caribbean women's literature, U.S. multicultural literature, Toni Morrison, children's literature

“A Feminist Reading of Soucouyants in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring and Skin Folk, ” Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature . 37.3 (Sept. 2004): 33-50.

“Speaking in (M)Other Tongues: The Role of Language in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother .” Callaloo 25.3 (Summer 2002): 938-953.

“Border Crossings in Audre Lorde's Zami : Triangular Linkages of Identity and Desire.” MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Vol.4 (2001). 130-41.

English 339: Introduction to Caribbean Literature
English 570: Borderlands & Border Crossings

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1998)