She specializes in medieval literature, philosophy, and critical theory, focusing on women's mystical texts, and Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Her book Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts (Columbia University Press, 2013) examines the relation between gender, temporality, the body, and language with a focus on the thirteenth century mystic Hadewijch. Her next book project, Responsive Subjects: Affect and Anglo-Saxon Literature, focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature and the use of affect in medieval pedagogy. She has translated Agamben’s The Time That Remains, and essays by Lyotard, Negri, and Alliez.