Her research focuses on fat and disability in Victorian British literature. Her work on these subjects has appeared in The Fat Studies Reader (New York University, 2009); Bodies Out of Bounds (University of California, 2001); Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture (Ohio State University, 2010); Cultures of the Abdomen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); Victorian Freaks (Ohio State University, 2008), and the journals Fat Studies and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript on fat in Victorian Britain.