Most recently, she has co-edited (with Stephanie Foote) and contributed to the volume Histories of the Dustheap (MIT Press), a multidisciplinary collection of essays about various histories, discourses and representations of garbage. She has published articles in such venues as Cultural Critique and Theory & Event. Her main research interests are contemporary environmentalism, cultural theory, the intersections of science and culture, and mountaineering. Professor Mazzolini teaches courses in science writing, professional writing, literary and cultural theory, and discourses of environmentalism for the English department.