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Moving Home: Gender, Writing and Travel in the Nineteenth-Century African Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2010); Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexaulity and African Diasporas, edited with Tera W. Hunter and Michele Mitchell (Blackwell, 2004); Bedford Cultural Edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, edited with Nancy Bentley (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002); "Traveling with Her Mother's Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race and Location in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands," Signs 26 #4, 2001; "Nancy Prince and the Politics of Mobility, Home and Diasporic (Mis)Identification," American Quarterly 53 #1, 2001; Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1894-1912 (Oxford University Press, Race and Culture Series, 1996); "Reading and Redemption in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays, ed. Deborah Garfield and Rafia Zafar, (Cambridge University Press, 1995; reprinted in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Norton Critical Edition, 2000); "Kate Chopin's Local Color Fiction and the Politics of White Supremacy," (Arizona Quarterly 51, 1995).  Reviews in Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, African American Review, Signs, and elsewhere.