Her book Optical Play: Glass, Vision, and Spectacle in Russian Culture (Northwestern UP, 2014) describes how glass objects in Russia have served to transform the ways in which their beholders saw as well as imagined. Her current research concerns the relationship between crime and culture in Russia, with a particular emphasis on the artistic representation of crime and the way in which writers have helped to define crime at moments of change in the legal system. She has presented several conference papers on crime in Nabokov’s fiction.