She is currently a Guggenheim fellow in Paris, where she is completing a book on vision and censorship in 19th-century France. She published Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in 19th-Century France (Columbia Univ. Press, 1994), and coedited Media Spectacles (Routledge, 1993) with Marjorie Garber and Rebecca Walkowitz. In May she authored a documentary film that was shown on French television in conjunction with the Julia Kristeva exhibition at the Musée du Louvre.