She specializes in Renaissance literature, with an emphasis on Shakespeare, and cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She has authored articles on Shakespeare in Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, and The Upstart Crow, and on cognitive literary theory in Mosaic, Philosophy and Literature, College Literature, and Configurations. She is the co-editor with theatre historian Bruce McConachie of Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn (2006), a first-ever collection of scholarly essays on cognitive theory and the performance arts. Her book-in-progress, Reading, Consciousness, and Renaissance Romance, considers romance fiction and Shakespearean drama in light of cognitive theories of literacy and narrative.