She is the author of Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (Routledge: 2001) and articles on politics and culture in the eighteenth-century Portuguese empire including “Slavery, empire, and civilization: a Luso-Brazilian defense of the slave trade in the Age of Revolutions” in Slavery and Abolition (2013). Her current research examines understandings of authority, society, and culture in the eighteenth-century Portuguese empire.