She serves as Associate Dean, Research for the Faculty of Music. Her research and teaching interests are focused in the 19th and 20th centuries and include music and culture in fin-de-siècle Vienna, opera, and music and technology. She has specialized in the music of Wagner, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Schreker, Zemlinsky, and Britten, and the musical thought of Theodor W. Adorno. Her research is informed by literary and critical theory, gender studies, philosophy and aesthetics, and her book 'Adorno at the Opera' will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.