Her pieces have appeared in Women's Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Film Criticism, Private Arts and Women Poets of the Americas, ed. Jacqueline V. Brogan and Cordelia Candelaria (Notre Dame Press, 1999). Hinton's first book, a study of the sentimental novel's development into the mass media, is entitled, The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (Albany: SUNY Press, October 1999). She is currently working on a second book, tentatively entitled, Reconceiving the Romance: Contemporary Women's Fiction and the Fetish of Desire.