She works on literary representations of Italian polycentrism and regional literatures (especially Sardinian), multilingual literature (from its theoretical underpinning to poetics and ideologies of individual authors), and language and style of 20th- and 21st-century writers. Among her recent publications are the co-edition of Sergio Atzeni e le voci della Sardegna (with Giuseppe Ledda, Bononia University Press, 2017) and of a themed issue of the Australian Journal of Crime Fiction, with the title Retold, Resold, Transformed. Crime Fiction in the Global Era (with Christiana Gregoriou and David Platten, 2017).