A specialist in the Victorian era, she has published articles in journals such as Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, and the Victorians Institute Journal, and in collections from State University of New York Press (Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism, ed. Joel Faflak, Julia M. Wright, and Pamela K. Gilbert (2004)) and Ashgate (Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries, ed. Roberta M. Marvin and Downing Thomas (2006)). Her current project is a book entitled Prima Donnas: Fictions, History, and the Victorian Singer.