Her book, The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the 20th Century, examines the role of female metic modernists in forging non-lethal, resilient responses to loss, calamity, and trauma. She has published several essays on feminist studies, Woolf, H.D., queer theory, and cultural studies pedagogy in venues such as Hypatia, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, ELN, Literature Compass, the MLA Approaches to Teaching series, MMLA, and Modernism/modernity. Detloff is a former vice president of the International Virginia Woolf Society and former co-chair of the H.D. International Society. She is currently completing a book on The Value of Woolf for Cambridge University Press and co-editing a volume on Queer Bloomsbury.