She researches and teaches in the areas of post-Victorian Arthurian literature, fantasy fiction and literature for young people. Her publications include A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana 1500-2000 (with Stephen R. Reimer, 2006), Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism (2001) and articles in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Children's Literature Association Quarterly and Extrapolation. Her current project is a book-length study of the Lady of Shalott/Elaine of Astolat figures in art, music and literature since the Victorian era.