Her areas of coverage are eighteenth-and nineteenth-century British literature. Her primary research area of interest is British literature and culture of the “long” eighteenth century, 1660-1830. She has a longstanding interest in philosophy and British women writers, and she has presented research at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) and the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she received several grants and two ASECS fellowships for research and participation in Folger Institute conferences and seminars (2007, 2010, and 2012). Her book, Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730 (Ashgate, 2011), considers the female libertine figure, the neo-Epicurean revival, and the rise of sensibility in literature written from the late Stuart to the early Georgian periods in England.