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(For complete list of publications see Curriculum Vitae)
"'Soi-Disant Columbuses': The 'Discovery' of Dominica's Boiling Lake and the Commodification of Knowledge in Colonial Settings." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 82:3/4 (2008):55-82.
"Haiti's Botpippel: Representations of 'Boat People' in Caribbean Art and Literature" (with Martha Daisy Kellehan) . In Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Literature and Culture. Edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero Cesareo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
"Endangered Species: Ecology and the Discourse of the Nation." In Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Literature and Culture. Edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero Cesareo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
"'He of the Trees': Nature, the Environment, and Creole Religiosities in Caribbean Literature." In Caribbean Literatures and the Environment. Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey et al. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2005, pp. 182-196.
"`Las aventuras de Anne Bonny y Mary Read: el travestismo y la historia de la piratería femenina en el Caribe." In Género y cultura en América Latina: Arte, historia y estudios de género. Edited by Luzelena Gutiérrez de Velasco. México: PIEM (Colegio de México), 2004.
"The Haitian Revolution in Interstices and Shadows: A Re-Reading of The Kingdom of This World." Research in African Literatures 35:2 (Summer 2004): 114-127.
"Caribbean Literature in Spanish.” In The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. Edited by Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 370-410.
"Unchained Tales: Women Writers from the Spanish Caribbean and the 1990s.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 22:4 (2003): 445-464.
"Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic: The Caribbean.” In The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Literature. Edited by Gerrold Hodges. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 229-257.
"Mrs. Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures in Many Lands and the Consciousness of Transit.” In Black Victorians/Black Victoriana. Edited by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003, pp. 71-87.
"Oriental Imprisonments: Habaneras as Seen by Nineteenth-Century Women Travelers." Revised version of article published earlier in Revista Mexicana del Caribe. In Between Anthropology and Literature: Interdisciplinary Discourses. Edited by Rose De Angelis. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 121-132.
"Cross-Dressing on the Margins of Empire: Women Pirates and the Discourse of Caribbean National Identity in Early Colonial History.” In Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse. Edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero Cesareo. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
"Richard Rodríguez’s Hunger of Memory and the Rejection of the Private Self.” In U.S. Latino Literatures: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers. Edited by Harold Augenbaum and Margarite Fernández Olmos. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, 81-92.
"Revisiting ‘Those Mean Streets’: Junot Díaz’s Drown.” In U.S. Latino Literatures: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers. Edited by Harold Augenbaum and Margarite Fernández Olmos. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, 163-174.
"A Forgotten Outpost of Empire: Social History in Dominica and the Creative Imagination.” Jean Rhys Review 10:2 (Summer 1999]:13-26.
"Jean Rhys and Phyllis Shand Allfrey: The Tale of a Friendship.” The Jean Rhys Review 9:1-2 (1998): 1-24.
"The Alienation of Power: Planter Heroines in Caribbean Novels by Women.” In The Woman, the Writer, and Caribbean Society, edited by Helen Pyne-Timothy. Los Angeles: UCLA, 1998.
"Women Possessed: Eroticism and Exoticism in the Representation of Woman as Zombie.” Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah and the Caribbean. Edited by Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
"Authors Playin' Mas': Carnival and the Carnivalesque in the Contemporary Caribbean Novel." In History of Caribbean Literatures, edited by A. James Arnold. Vol. 3. Cross Cultural Studies. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997.
"Decolonizing Feminism: The Homegrown Roots of Caribbean Feminism." In Daughters of Caliban: Essays on 20th Century Caribbean Women. Edited by Consuelo López Springfield. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
"Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: Untenable Sisterhoods," Journal of Caribbean Studies (Winter 1997): 59-76.
"La mujer y el poder en la historiografía de la plantación caribeña," Revista Mexicana del Caribe 1:1 (July-August 1996). 22pp.
"Patterns of Dominance in Puerto Rican Literature: A Historical Overview." In Inside Ethnic America: An Ethnic Studies Reader, edited by Robert L. Perry and Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, 143-164. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996.
"Feminism, Color, and Difference in the Works of Mayotte Capécia, Michelle Lacrosil, and Jacqueline Manicon." Callaloo 15:1 (1992): 56-62.
"The White Witch of Rosehall and the Legitimacy of Female Power in the Caribbean Plantation." Journal of West Indian Literature 4:2 (1990): 25-45.
Published simultaneously in Anales del Caribe 10 (1990): 145-160.
"Las novelistas puertorriqueñas inexistentes," Cupey VI:1-2 (1989): 90-113.
"Neverending Cycles and Revolutionary Ends: Revolt and Rebirth in the Contemporary Caribbean Novel," in Sargasso 6 (1989): 29-39.
"On the Threshold of Becoming: Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers," (with Barbara Webb) Cimarrón 1:3 (1988): 106-132. Excerpts reprinted in Caribbean Women Writers. Edited by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997.
"Murder in the Caribbean: In Search of Difference," Clues 7:1 (1987): 1-10.
"Is It or Isn't It?: The Duality of Parodic Detective Fiction," (with Carlos Yorio). In Comic Crime, edited by Earl Bargainnier, 181-193. Bowling Green: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1987.
"[Ishmael Reed's] Mumbo Jumbo and the Uses of Parody," Obsidian II 1:1-2 (1986):113-125. Reprinted in: Contemporary Literary Criticism 60, edited by Roger Matuz, 302-304. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1990; Black Literature Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1991.
"La renuncia del héroe Baltasar: parodia, mito e historia," Plural 4:1-2 (1985):101-108.
"Luis Rafael Sánchez and Norman Mailer: Puerto Rico and the United States as Heard on the Radio." Sargasso 1:1 (1984): 20-29.