She works primarily in the areas of contemporary feminist and queer theorizing, trauma and memory studies, and pedagogy and culture. She is the editor of the special issue “Memorializing Queers/Queering Remembrances,” for torquere: Journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association; is co-author of Troubling Women’s Studies: Pasts, Presents and Possibilities, with A. Braithwaite, S. Heald, and S. Luhmann, and is co-editor of Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma, with R. Simon and C. Eppert. Rosenberg’s current research considers the possibilities for non-indifference as a mode of living with and in regard for the legacies of those who have died violently.