She is the director of the M.A. program in Literary Translation: French to English. Among her translations of American novels into French are Louis Begley’s The Man Who Was Late and As Max Saw It, Rick Moody’s The Black Veil, and Tom Perrotta’s Little Children and The Leftovers. Her current work and research focus on the poetics of biculturalism, bilingualism, and diglossia, as well as on the history and theory of translation. She also works on questions related to 19th and 20th Century literary use of orality, dialects, and other vernacular forms of expression and their translation.