Her research and teaching interests include: early twentieth-century literature, film and culture; German Jewish topics; urban spaces; questions of modernity; film theory; critical theory. Some recent courses Hwang has taught include: The Urban Imagination, Strangers in a Strange Land: German Jews, On the Move: Travelers, Wanderers, and Explorers. Her current work explores how discourses of wandering, urban alienation, and the stranger intersect in the figure of the German Jewish intellectual.