She wrote "African American Theater: A Cultural Companion", and completed a two-disk DVD, "What's Cookin' in the Kitchen? A Planetary Portrait 9/11/01 - 9/11/04", which documented her "Kitchen Prayers" series. At the University of Michigan she was Head of the African American Theater Minor and served as Director of the Center for World Performance Studies. Before Michigan, She was head of the Department of Drama and Dance at Spelman College and she taught at Rutgers University, both the New Brunswick and Newark campuses. Dickerson was also an Assistant Professor of Directing in the Department of Theater at Howard University and Chair of the Theater Department at The Duke Ellington School of the Arts (formerly, The School of the Arts at Western). She was the playwright with Breena Clarke of "Re/Membering Aunt Jemima: A Menstrual Show", which is published in "Colored Contradictions, An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays" edited by Harry J. Elam and Robert Alexander and in "Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, An Anthology", edited by Kathy Perkins and Roberta Uno.