Her research and teaching focus on postcolonial and environmental literary and cultural studies. Her publications include articles and coedited collections on slow and local food movements, scenario planning, risk and resilience, environmental futurity and the temporality of globalization. She also co-authored, with Imre Szeman, Popular Culture: A User's Guide (4th edition, Nelson, 2017). She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled "Surprise! The cultural politics of resilience".