She studies the rhetoric of science—particularly the public reception of visual arguments in climate change debates. Her most recent book, Topologies as Techniques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), edited with Casey Boyle, explores topology as a spatial method for inventing new ways to deliberate over issues of science and technology. Her monograph Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (Oxford, 2013) traces a dominant strand in the public role played by scientists back to its historical roots in religious rhetoric.