Her research interests include Renaissance/early modern literature and culture, drama, intellectual history, affect theory and the history of the passions, and theories of poetics, genre, and aesthetics. Her book project, Shakespeare and the Drama of Complaint, focuses on the way speeches and scenes of complaint--lamentation, supplication, and protest--in early modern theatrical tragedy explore the ethical, political, social, and aesthetic value of "complaining," a common trope in moral philosophy and other discourses for modes of action criticized as passive, ineffective, and feminine.