Books

Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures [Essays]. Edited with Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, Spring 2008. 

Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse [Essays]. Edited with Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Book Chapters
"Moving Metaphors: The Representation of AIDS in Caribbean Literature and Visual Arts." Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, Spring 2008.

"Travelers Possessed: Generic Hybrids and the Caribbean." Between Anthropology and Literature: Interdisciplinary Discourse. London: Routledge Press, 2002. 248-66.

"El drama del silencio: Renacimiento ritual en la literatura caribena." Cultural (Con) fusion? Trans-Caribbean Performers and Performance. Rio Piedras: Caribe 2000 Series (2002). 49-63.

"Women Adrift: Madwomen, Matriarchs, and the Caribbean." Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001. 135-60.

"Sorcerers, She-Devils, and Shipwrecked Women: Writing Religion in French Caribbean Literature." Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997, pp. 248-66.

Articles
Introduction to New Mango Season: Journal of Caribbean Women's Writing.1.2. Goldsmiths College, University of London (Spring 2008):

"Danzon." Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana. 36.2 (November 2007): 230-32.

"Mary Ann Clark's Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Practices and Their Gender Implications." Journal of Church and State. 49.1 (Winter 2007): 137-38.

"The Black Womb: Reconstructing Families in Caribbean Testimonial Literature." Revista del CESLA (Journal of the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Warsaw) No. 9 (2006): 115-34.

"Mary Seacole." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Series: Volume 147. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2005. 236-43. 

"The Umbilical Cord: Motherhood and Displacement in the Work of Jacqueline Manicom." Mango Season: Journal of Caribbean Women's Writing. 13.1 (2000): 32-42.

"Homebodies and Heroines: Women in French Caribbean Testimonial Narrative" Anales del Caribe. 16-18 (1998): 121-27.

May 26-June 1, 2008: "Ojos asi: The Exotic Other in Caribbean Literature." Caribbean Studies Association Conference, San Andres, Colombia.

September 5-8, 2007: "AIDS, Blame, and Religiosity in Caribbean Literature and Arts." Latin American Studies Association XXVII International Congress, Montreal, Canada.

May 28-June 1, 2007: "An (Un)natural Disaster?: AIDS, Loss, and Trauma in Caribbean Art and Literature." 32nd Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

March 15-18, 2006: "The Exotic of the Exotic: Caribbean Orientalism in Puerto Rican Women's Writing." Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

May 30-June 3, 2006: "Four-by-fours and Pickup Trucks: Status Symbols in U. S. Caribbean Chick-Lit." 10th Anniversary International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Writers and Scholars, Hollywood, Florida.

March 29-April 1, 2005: "The Automobile as an 'Isle Remote' in Caribbean Literature." 24th Annual West Indian Literature Conference, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 

November 1-5, 2005: "Plantation Legacy and the Role of Education in the Twentieth Century: Dany Bebel-Gisler and Francoise Ega's Testimonial Literature." ICCL 6th International Conference on Caribbean Literature, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

April 10-12, 2003: "Maryse Conde and the Permeability of Boundaries." The Caribbean Unbound Franklin College Conference on Caribbean Literature and Culture, Lugano, Switzerland.

November 7-9, 2002: "Spiritual Migrations in Caribbean Literature." The 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium: Global Diasporas and the United States, Boca Raton, Florida. 

November 21-23, 2002: "Cruzando fronteras: La permeabilidad de mundos en la literatura caribena." Segundo Congreso Internacional: Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad, University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

April 2-9, 2002: "Death by AIDS: Aesthetic Responses of Caribbean Artists." 8th International Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Trois-Ilets, Martinique. 

September 6-8, 2001: "Namuni y Ninina: La representacion de la mujer negra en Dora Alonso y Maria Josefa de Granados." Latin American Studies Association Congress, Washington, D.C.

June 4-7, 2001: "Responses to AIDS and Homophobia in Puerto Rican Visual Art." (Re) thinking Caribbean Culture, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.

September 29-October 1, 2000: "Empty Beds: The Representation of AIDS in Caribbean Literature and Art." Caribbean Literary Studies Congress, University of Miami, Boca Raton, Florida.

April 2-7, 2000: "Suma: Dora Alonso y su legado historico en el nuevo milenio." 7th International Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

October 30-31, 1999: "El drama del silencio: Renacimiento ritual en la literatura caribena." Caribbean 2000 Symposium, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

November 15-20, 1998: "Agua pasada: Abarcando un siglo con Dora Alonso." IV Congreso de Creacion Femenina: 100 Anos de Transculturacion, Universidad Central de Bayamon, Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

May 18-22, 1998: "'Duskier Skin Than Theirs:' Mobility, Race, and the Construction of Caribbeanness in Mary Seacole and Francoise Ega." 6th International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Grande Anse, Grenada.