She also co-directs the series “Feminism & Co.: Art, Sex, Politics” -- a program designed to address issues relating to women and gender at The Laboratory of Art + Ideas at Belmar. Her research and teaching interests include American literature and culture, critical theory and the history of the reading. She has published in academic venues and in mainstream venues including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Observer and The Los Angeles Times. She is currently completing a book about reading practices in nineteenth-century America.