My work focuses on grief, death, trauma, and mourning. I am fascinated by depictions of grief and bereavement in African American Literature. Integrating postcolonial theory and psychoanalysis into my work, I study interrupted or prohibited grief. Specifically, I am interested in how Black people mourn 400 years of trauma individually, collectively, and nationally through our literature. I also research the ways the acknowledgement of grief/mourning are linked to personhood, citizenship, and a recognition of our collective humanity. 

Although my passion is Black Literature and Culture, my interests include 20th and 21st Century American Literature, American Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Theory, especially Deconstruction and Critical Race Theory.