Professor Wilks recently finished Carmen in Diaspora: Adaptation, Race, and Opera's Most Famous Character (forthcoming from Oxford University Press), a cultural history of adaptations of the Carmen story set in African diasporic contexts. She has now returned to her study of representations of race and apocalypse in contemporary literature and culture. She has also written extensively about the role of gender in African American and Francophone Caribbean modernisms. More broadly, Prof. Wilks' interests include contemporary African American and Afro-European literatures, multiethnic American literatures, Caribbean literature, film, travel writing, and translation.