• PhD, Miami University 2001
  • MA, Miami University 1998
  • BA, Westfield State College 1994

Articles in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism and FEMSPEC

Trustees Teaching Award, IUPUI, 2005, 2007 Outstanding Woman Faculty Leader Award, IUPUI, 2006

Referee for Twentieth-Century Literature

Caribbean literature; postcolonial literature and studies; African American literature; ethnic immigrant literature