She teaches courses in media history, theory, and criticism, and does research primarily in the areas of feminist film theory and criticism and film and social history. The author of several book chapters and essays in such journals as Wide Angle, Cinema Journal, Camera Obscura, and Film History, she is co-editor of Feminism and Documentary (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). In 1998-1999 she was a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School and currently she is working on various projects involving popular culture and the law. Nationally she has been active in the Society for Cinema Studies and is a member of the advisory board of the journal Studies in Documentary Film.