She is the author of Berlin Psychoanalytic (University of California Press, 2011) and the co-editor of Imagining Germany, Imagining Asia (Camden House, 2013). She is currently co-editing Towards a Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1950 and completing a monograph on Thomas Mann's Brazilian mother and Mann's construction of race and "Germanness." Her research interests include the history of psychoanalysis and sexology, German-language modernism, contemporary culture, and film, and the connections between different global modernisms.