She is one of the department’s undergraduate advisors and teaches classes on structural geology, continental tectonics, and regional geology of global orogenic systems. Wyld’s research interests focus on the structural and tectonic evolution of convergent plate margins, particularly on how convergent margins grow over time and how the structural evolution of these margins can be related to plate tectonic interactions. Her current areas of study are the western North American Cordillera and in the Leeward Antilles of the southern Caribbean.