Her research and teaching interests are primarily the literature and culture of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Restoration in 1660 until the close of the eighteenth century. Current research includes an edition of Sarah Chapone’s The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1735), and a study of Frances Brooke and Quebec in the 1760s. She is the author of Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Bucknell University Press, 2006).