She researches and publishes in the areas Canadian Indigenous picture books and graphic narratives and memoirs of German childhoods in World War II. Her recent work includes “Changing Minds and Hearts: Felt Theory and the Carceral Child in Indigenous Canadian Residential School Picture Books” in Affect, Emotion and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (Routledge 2018) and “Challenging Stereotypes by Restorying History in Canadian Indigenous-Authored Picture Books and Graphic Narratives for Middle Years Classrooms” in Finding New Voice and Vision in Literacy Learning (International Centre for Innovation in Education 2016). Doris has collaborated on the Six Seasons project since 2014.