Her research interests and teaching include North African and French Canadian literatures and cultures, women writing, and Middle-Eastern literature and culture. Her book, Témoignages fictionnels au féminin. Une réécriture des blancs de la guerre civile algérienne was published in 2012 with Rodopi, and she co-edited two volumes: The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (2013) and Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin. Enracinement et renégociation (2011).