Her research focuses on contemporary German literature, primarily women writers, and she has published on Jenny Erpenbeck, Judith Hermann, Angela Krauβ, and Antje Rávic Strubel. Her current project examines depictions of houses and housing disputes in former East Germany in literature, film, and television since the early 1990s and will include work on Erpenbeck’s novel Visitation. Her article “Conceiving of a Realfictional Body: Material Feminisms and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Geschichte vom alten Kind” is forthcoming with German Quarterly this spring.