Her third book, “Soul Sounds”: The Afterlife in African American Literature and Music, is forthcoming fall 2026 from Fordham University Press. She is also at work on a born-digital project on Afrofuturism. Her second book, Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature, was published in March 2013 by the University of Minnesota Press. (Each Hour Redeem) Her first book, Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, was published in 2004 (Unnatural Selections). Before she joined Macalester’s faculty in 2003, she taught African American Literature at Bowie State University, one of the oldest historically black colleges in the nation. She has also held visiting appointments at Brown University and Brandeis University.