Her current research is on animals, science fiction, and technoculture and it will appear in the book Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal forthcoming from Liverpool University Press. She is interested in questions of ethics and the human/animal boundary, in posthumanism and the genetic modification of humans and animals, and in representations of animals in popular culture. She is currently guest editing a special issue of the journal Science Fiction Studies on 'The Animal' which will appear in July 2008, and is a founding co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Humanimalia: The Journal of Human-Animal Interfaces which will be launched in the fall of 2008. The journal is also edited by Lynda Birke, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Susan McHugh and Nils Lindahl Elliot.