Her fields of specialization are Indonesian literature, gender, Islam, and the environment. Her PhD thesis deals with representations of political violence and power in Indonesian literature from 1945 to the present. Together with Edwin Wieringa, she co-edited Duft der Asche (Horlemann Verlag, 2008), an anthology of stories by Indonesian women writers, Nukila Amal, Linda Christanty, Helvy Tiana Rosa, Ayu Utami and others.