She writes on mourning and memorialization from a comparative religions perspective and her most recent book, Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-first Century, with the University Press of Kentucky, has received much acclaim. The author of various other articles and book chapters, her forthcoming book Dying to Eat examines the intersection of death and food and the ways in which food serves to connect both the dying and the dead with the realm of the living.