She specializes in the history of German religious women in the central Middle Ages. She is the author of The Trauma of Monastic Reform: Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and the editor of Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany (Brepols, 2007).