Her research examines questions of cultural translation and transmission in an international context, concentrating on Japan’s relations with the West as well as pluralism in Canada. Her current projects include an exhibition on pluralism in Canada, as well as a book that considers the Japanese avant-garde art movement Gutai in a transnational context. She has published and given papers in Japan, Europe, the United States, and Canada, and in 2004–5 was the curator of the award-winning exhibition “Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954–1968” at the Grey Art Gallery in New York and at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver. She is a founding member of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) at Carleton.