Her scholarship centers on race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in twentieth-century American literature and popular culture. Her book, The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2013. She teaches courses in American literature and popular culture since the Civil War, multiethnic American literature, American Studies, and literary theory and cultural studies. Since 2014, she has been incorporating digital humanities projects that curate materials from BGSU’s special collections libraries in her upper-division courses.