Her specialty is postmodern American literature, particularly multiethnic, magical realist, and speculative fiction. Her publications include articles such as "The Supernatural and Cultural Agency" in Perforations, "Strange Changes: Cultural Transformation in U.S. Magical Realist Fiction" in LiCuS: Journal of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, and "The Masculinized Female Hero: Punishing Misalignment in Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones" in the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association.