She focuses especially on the intersections among the law, literature, science and medicine, and she is interested in how collaborations among scholars from these fields can facilitate a greater understanding of genome science. She is currently completing two projects; one on the idea of emerging infections and the evolution of the outbreak narrative in science, journalism, fiction and film; and the other on genomics, especially how the language, narratives and images in the popular media shape the general public’s understanding of the science.