Specializing in early modern English literature, law, and culture, she is currently finishing her book Fluid Propriety: Water and Authority in Spenser and Shakespeare, which re-interprets the ubiquity of rivers and streams in Elizabethan prose, poetry, and drama in relationship to the complex Tudor history of property rights in fresh water. Part of this research includes cartographic history, particularly the importance of maps drawn for legal cases involving fresh water use rights disputes. Her work has also focused on Hawaiian legal history and current legal and political issues as well as “Native” issues in the common law diaspora.