She has published several essays on scientific, literary, and visual media representations of animals, including "Bitches from Brazil: Cloning and Owning Dogs through The Missyplicity Project" in Representing Animals, edited by Nigel Rothfels (2002). Her book Dog (2004), part of the Animal series from Reaktion Books, stems from her broader interests in stories of domestication. As part of Genetics in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (a working group sponsored by the National Institute of Health with additional support by Vanderbilt and Duke Universities), she is presently researching how species became a primary form of identity through genetic aesthetics. Her criminal animal partner is Mikoli Volkoff, the nom de web of a bio-free artist.