Her primary research area is Canadian humour and satire with particular interests in the nineteenth-century and in Canadian women’s humour. Her publications include papers on eighteenth-century Canadian humour, the nineteenth-century romance as written by women in the Maritimes, and the humour of Robertson Davies and Lynn Johnston, among others. She is currently working on a history of women’s humour in Canada and an anthology of Canadian women’s writings about war beginning with the American Revolution.