Her research focuses on critical theory in the tradition of the early Frankfurt School, which includes its theoretical foundations in Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. She is the author of The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel (2015) and several essays on a range of thinkers, including Simone de Beauvoir, Walter Benjamin, Melanie Klein, Michel Foucault, Sheldon Wolin, and Carole Pateman. She is guest-editing a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on The Authoritarian Personality, which will appear in 2018. She is also working with Banu Bargu in preparing a collection of essays on “The Political Encounter with Louis Althusser.”