She specializes in Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature. Her teaching and research interests include theatre, film and performance studies, bohemian and expatriate cultures, and gender and sexuality studies. Her edition of the letters of Sylvia Beach, the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses and the owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, came out in 2010 (Columbia UP). Her current projects include an edition of James Joyce's Dubliners (forthcoming from Broadview Press) and a monograph on film acting called Acting Like a Hustler: Method Acting, Gender, and the Hollywood Film.