She presently holds a SSHRC standard grant to conduct research on asylum seekers and discourses of inclusion and exclusion. Currently, she has two forthcoming publications on popular representations of asylum seekers, including “Human Cargo: Bridging Geopolitical Divides” in Programming Realities edited by Zöe Druick and Patsy Kotsopoulos (WLPress) and “Discourses of Evil in North American War Memory: Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April” in The Popularization of War Memory edited by Michael Keren and Holger Herwig. She has research expertise in the areas of Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, Political Violence and Cultural Memory, and has numerous publications on WWII Japanese Canadian internment camps.