Drawing on a host of classical and contemporary sources in intellectual history, literature, theater, and dance, she examines the literary and dramatic ideas commonly utilized by librettists and composers in order to better understand the ways in which comedy has historically functioned within opera. She has presented her research in the U.S. and Europe and is currently working on a book entitled "Artificio o Naturalezza? Comedy and Verisimilitude in Seventeenth-century Opera".