She is especially interested in the changing relationships between audiences, artworks, and the public sphere in the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. Her publications include “Merciful Mother Kannon and its Audiences,” The Art Bulletin XCII:4 (December 2010), Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints (2012, with Anne Leonard) and Making Modern Japanese Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images (forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2015). She is currently at work on a new project about copying, citation, originality, and the circulation of images in early modern and modern Japan.