She has been studying women's life writing and published numerous book chapters and articles in such journals as Canadian Woman Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, Resources for Feminist Research, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, among others. She is the author of Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation (2012), an analysis of immigrant women's autobiographical narratives, and the co-editor of Trans/acting Writing, Culture, and Memory (2013).