Her first book, Men in Women's Clothing: Anti-theatricality and Effeminization 1579-1642, examines anxieties about boy actors on the Renaissance stage. She is at work on a book about anxieties about witchcraft during the early modern period, and a series of essays about ballet. The recipient of grants from the NEH, The Mary Ingraham Bunting Association, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, she is a 2010 winner of NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.