Her present research is on the American war cinema after 1991 and she is currently co-editing the anthology War Isn’t Hell, It’s Entertainment: War in Modern Culture and Visual Media (Spring 2009, McFarland). She is the author of Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006 (2007, McFarland), co-editor of Femme Fatalities: Representations of Strong Women in the Media (2004, Nordicom) with Anne Gjelsvik, and has written several books in Danish about the horror film and the action cinema. She also writes fiction.