My goal as a researcher focused on issues of sexualized violence has always been to work myself out of that job. There should not be experts in this field or a field at all because there should be no sexualized violence (and all violence is sexualized). I always keep that in mind as a goal.

Education

PhD, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 1998

Select Publications

“Creolized Ecology in Mayra Montero’s Palm of Darkness.” Forthcoming in Caribbean Crossroads: Women's Space and Time Re-imagined, eds. Odile Ferly and Tegan Zimmerman, 2021.
Death is but a Dream: Hope and Meaning at Life’s End, Penguin-Random House, 2020 (with Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Hospice Buffalo)
“Sexualized Violence in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.” Forthcoming in Wide Sargasso Sea at 50.” Palgrave, MacMillan (other contributors include Jamaica Kincaid, Erica Johnson, Elaine Savory), 2020.
“Framing the Victim: Rape, Agency, and Structural Masculinity in the Contemporary United States” – Rutgers UB, 2016
“Reclaiming Difference: Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism” – University of Virginia Press (New World Series), 2005