Her interests revolve around the areas of rhetorical theory, feminist theory and critical social theory. Her work with grassroots feminist groups in India and diasporic South Asian communities in the USA has focused on the use of performance to make rhetorical claims about issues of social justice and human rights. This research, combining ethnographic fieldwork and rhetorical analysis, has been published in outlets such as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Journal of American Folklore and Women's Studies in Communication.