Areas of Specialty:

• Twentieth-Century British Literature
• Postcolonial Literature
• Literary Theory and Globalization
• Cultural Studies

• Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness. University of Virginia Press. Expected publication: December, 2006.
• "Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors: 1950s London and the Emergence of Postcolonial Literature." PMLA, January 2007.
• "Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic Verses," Modern Fiction Studies 48: 50-82. Part of special issue, "Postmodernism and the Globalization of English," ed. Michael Bérubé.
• "Cities of Affluence: Masculinity, Class, and the Angry Young Men," Modern Fiction Studies 47: 92-117.