Her published writings focus on aspects of subjectivity, gender, and colonial identity in art by and about women. She is the author of Difficult Subjects: Working Women and Visual Culture, Britain 1880–1914 and editor of a forthcoming volume of essays entitled Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Women and Art in Canada, 1850–1970. Kristina Huneault is a founder of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative and the winner of the 2010 Marion Dewar Prize for Canadian Women's History.