She does research on contemporary Japanese art and visual culture with special attention to performance, gender and nationhood, as well as post-human aesthetics and robot culture. Gunhild has published in journals such as Performance Research and Copenhagen Journal for Asian Studies, and is the editor of and contributor to Performing Archives / Archives of Performance (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013). She has contributed to volumes such as Social Aesthetics. Ambience – Imaginary (eds. Michelsen and Tygstrup; Leiden: Brill, 2015); Transvisuality: The Cultural Dimension of Visuality (eds. Kristensen, Michelsen, and Wiegrand; Liverpool University Press, 2015), and Comics & Power. Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects, and Communities (eds. Magnussen, Cortsen, and La Cour; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).