She has published widely on Japanese narrative music, including Kiyomoto-bushi: Narrative Music of the Kabuki Theatre, Kassel: Baerenreiter, 1999, and 'The reception of the Heike Monogatari as performed narrative: the Atsumori episode in heikyoku, zato biwa and satsuma biwa,' in Japanese Studies 23, 1 (2003). She is co-editor of The Ashgate Companion to Japanese Music, forthcomin by Ashgate Publications in 2008. Her forthcoming book, The Japanese Singer of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narratives will also be published by Ashgate in 2009. Other interests include the influence of Japanese music on contemporary Australian composition; koto music; international marriage; Japanese popular culture; and Japan–Korea relations.