She defended her MA thesis on the topic of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić in 1999 (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb) and her doctoral thesis (on Croatian children´s novels) in 2004 (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb). She is the author of a monograph on Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (ZZOK, 2001) and a university textbook Kraći ljudi. Povijest dječjeg lika u hrvatskom dječjem romanu (Shorter people. The history of the child character in Croatian children´s novels; Školska knjiga, 2011), and co-author (with Marijana Hameršak) of Uvod u dječju književnost (Introduction to children´s literature; Leykam International, 2015). Her research and teaching interests include children´s and young adult literature and culture, Croatian non-children´s literature and similar topics.