Her research and teaching focus on the intersection of literature and science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her first book argues that the generic hybrids of Romantic period literature—poems with footnotes and novels littered with excerpts of poetry—materialize, on the printed page, the result of applying the inductive method of empiricist science to the work of literary composition. She has published articles on Charlotte Smith, Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Johnson, and Robert Southey; she is also the co-editor, with Michael Gamer, of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads, 1798 and 1800 (Broadview, 2008).