Her research and teaching interests include Asian American literature, theater, and film, as well as modern and contemporary drama, comparative studies of race and ethnicity, and theories of performance in the everyday. Her first book, entitled The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday, is under contract with NYU Press. Kim has published work in Theater Journal, Modern Drama, The Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Modernism/modernity.