Her fields of study include modern Japanese literature, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and Japanese visual culture. Her first book is called This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory and Freud (Stanford University Press, 2009). Her essay about Chernobyl and Fukushima titled “What Kind of Science? Reading Irigaray with Stengers” will be part of the book Philosophy after Irigaray to be published by SUNY Press. In March 2011, she began editing Mechademia's new online "Reviews and Commentary" section.