Her fields of specialization are twentieth Century Japanese literature, transnational writers of Japan, East-West literary relations, and Japanese and German postwar fiction. Her ublications include a book Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan (1998) and articles, such as "On Two Interviews Between Gunter Grass and Oe Kenzaburo;” "The Obsession to Destroy Monuments: Mishima and Boll;” "Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum and Oe Kenzaburo'sMy Tears: A Study in Convergence," "The Documentary Novel: Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain and Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries;" "Hiroshima in Oba Minako's Urashimaso: Desire and Self-Destructiveness; ” "Seeing Between the Lines: Imamura Shohei's Kuroi Ame (Black Rain);" Oe Kenzaburo’s "Shiiku" (Prize Stock); and “Nomadic Writers of Japan: Tawada Yoko and Mizumura Minae.” She is working on a book on translational women writers.