Her research interests include: Early American literature, Atlantic colonialism, the early novel, feminist theory, political theory, aesthetics, transatlantic print culture, Caribbean literature, and early American drama. Publications includeThe Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford University Press, 2004). Professor Dillon is currently completing the manuscript for New World Drama: Theatre of the Atlantic, 1660-1850 that will be published by Duke University Press; co-editing, with Michael Drexler, a volume of essays on early American culture and the Haitian Revolution. She has receievd the Heyman Prize for Outstanding Publication in the humanities at Yale University in 2003; Society of Early Americanists Essay Prize in 2005.