Her scholarship focuses on fan communities, transformative works, digital economies, and representational politics, and her teaching specializes in sexuality, gender, media ethnography, and convergence. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures, an open-source, peer-reviewed on-line academic journal affiliated with the non-profit Organization for Transformative Works, which offers fans legal, social, and technological resources to organize, preserve their history, and promote the legality of transformative works.