Her teaching and research engage a variety of issues in popular music, jazz, and American culture. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming (p. xxii) in journals including Current Musicology, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études Critiques en Improvisation; the edited volumes Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies (Duke, 2008); and People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now (Duke, 2013); and the reference works The Encyclopedia of African American Music, The Encyclopedia of African American Culture, The Oxford Handbooks Online in Music; and the Grove Dictionary of American Music.