She is the author of John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War (Culture of the United States Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2004), and has published essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Toni Morrison, Harriet Jacobs, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and, most recently, writing by activists who traveled to Hanoi during the 1960s. Her current research focuses on militarism and resistance in the post-WWII period, and she has recently received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for work on a book about radical documentary prose and film of the Vietnam era.