She does gender and sexuality studies with a focus on feminist, queer, cultural, and psychoanalytic theories. She published Sexing the Teacher: School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies with the UBC Press in 2007 and it was given honorable mention by the Canadian Women's Studies Association. Her new book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination (2010, UTP) analyses the history and cultural politics of excretion and its relation to gender and sexuality studies. She has received three standard research SSHRC grants and published in a wide range of refereed journals including: Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society; Body and Society; Social Text; Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society; and The International Journal of Cultural Studies. Area of Specialization