Her research primarily focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, with a special interest in Jane Austen and the English Gothic novel. She also studies traumatic memory and how it is manifest in fiction. She has published several papers in the Jane Austen Society of North America’s journal, Persuasions, and is currently working on a book about Jane Austen and value (Working title: Sense, Pride and the Market Economy: Tracing Value(s) within Jane Austen’s Writing.)