- *My Foot My Tutor* (2007)
- *Dead Cats Bouncing: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance* (2014)
Non-Fiction:
- *The African-American Novel in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction through May J. Kennedy's Fiction* (2010)
- *The Works of May J. Kennedy: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography* (2009)
- *The Collected Poems of May J. Kennedy* (2009)
- *Remembering Who We Are: Black Cultural Memory and the Caribbean Literary Canon* (2007)
- *The Existentialist Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor* (2005)
- *Voices of the African Diaspora: Conversations with Writers* (2004)
- *Postcolonial Studies and Beyond* (2001)
- *African and Caribbean Literature: Critical Perspectives on Orature* (1999)
Edited Works:
- *African American Literary Studies from Early Romanticism to Modernism* (1997)
- *The Cambridge Companion to Claude McKay* (2004)