Toni Morrison (Greenwood 1998), Claiming the Heritage: African American Women Novelists and History (University Press of Mississippi 1991);
articles in African American Review, Melus, CLA Journal and Frontiers
Fellow, Andrew White Society for the Humanities (Cornell University) 1988-89;
Outstanding Woman Faculty Leader at IUPUI, 2005
African-American literature, women’s fiction, British Victorian fiction, and multicultural American literature
Advisory Board Member, African American Review and MELUS: Minority and Ethnic Literature of the United States