Her teaching and research interests include global media studies, Japanese and Chinese language film and media, inter-Asia cultural studies, and critical approaches to digital media in the context of globalization. Her work is grounded in the historical and contemporary stakes of exchange to East Asian and Asia Pacific screen media. A series on interviews with Tokyo-based film producers, entitled Interviews: Framing Tokyo Media Capital and Asian Co-Production, was published out of Palgrave Press in 2011. Her book Co-Producing Asia: Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media addresses film and media co-productions in East Asia from the second half of the twentieth century, and was published in 2014 from the University of Minnesota Press.