She is the author of Figuring the East: Segalen, Malraux, Duras, and Barthes (State University of New York Press, 1999). She has recently re-edited the works of two French colonial women writers, Christiane Fournier, Homme jaune et femme blanche (L'Harmattan, 2012); and Clotilde Chivas-Baron, La Femme française aux colonies suivi de contes et Légendes de l’Annam (L'Harmattan, 2009). She has published in journals such as Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and French Colonial History. She is currently completing a book for Oxford University Press on the history of French women and the empire using Indochina as a case study.