Her general field of specialization is eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, with a focus on intellectual and cultural history, and a particular interest in women writers, religion, sociability, and politics, as well as intersections between science and literature. She received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant for a monograph project on the Aikins, a famous literary and Dissenting family that includes Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Aikin, Arthur Aikin, and Lucy Aikin. The title of this project is “‘The Freedom of the Mind’: The Aikin Family and the Legacy of Rational Dissenting Sociability.”