Her research and teaching interests include poetics of place, body and space; early 20th century avant-garde; visual and material culture; tourism; oral history and ethnography; performative writing and mystory; interdisciplinary, collaborative, and community based performance. She is vice chair and 2018 convention planner of the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association. In Spring 2018 she co-directed Institutionally Aggravated, a conversation between civil right activist Bayard Ruston and Irish poet and playwright Brendan Behan on the best path to resistance in the face of systemic social injustice.