Courses Professor Walker has taught at USM include College Writing, The Twentieth Century American Novel, The Modern Age in America, The Indian in American Literature and Culture, Race in U.S. Cinema, Lesbian Fiction, and Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies. In the future, she plans to develop a 100-level course in Lesbian and Gay Fiction and a 300-level course in Fashion Theory and Semiotics.

  Professor Walker is finishing a book entitled "Looking Like What  You Are: Sexual Style, Race and the Construction of Lesbian Identity," for publication with New York University Press.  Analyzing the way concepts of cultural visibility and invisibility define racial and gender/sexual identities, the book focuses on representations of figures who "pass" and who are "marked" as Other in twentieth-century texts including African-American and Caribbean-American novels, white-authored Harlem Renaissance novels, lesbian pulp fiction, and contemporary feminist theory. It explores what it means to "look like what you are," what it means to look like something else, and how identities are defined in the field of the visible.

Related publications are:
 "How to Recognize a Lesbian: The Cultural Politics of Looking Like What You Are." Signs 18:4 Summer 1993), special issue on "Theorizing Lesbian Experience,866-890.

"Embodying Desire: Piercing and the Fashioning of 'Neo-butch/femme' Identities."  In Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender. Ed. Sally R. Munt. Washington: Cassell, 1998. 123-32.