She studies rhythm and meter in music since 1900, focusing on issues of pattern-construction, formal organization, and text-setting. Her work on the piano music of György Ligeti shows how subtle changes in rhythmic patterns result in pieces with drastically different formal and aesthetic outcomes. Her chapters in Form and Process in Music (Cambridge) and György Ligeti Symposium (forthcoming, University of Rochester) expand on this research. She is a reviewer for Oxford University Press and currently serves on the Society for Music Theory’s Committee on the Status of Women.