She teaches Victorian and early twentieth-century British literature, with special attention to the novel, the fin de siècle, and the intersection of literature and the visual arts. Her scholarly work has focused on the work of Thomas Hardy, a writer whose career spanned the Victorian and modern periods, and whose oeuvre includes novels, short stories, drama, and poetry. Her work on Hardy has been published in a variety of journals, including Modern Language Studies, ELT, The Hardy Review, and most recently in The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy.