Her current project focuses on acts of referring in the nineteenth-century realist novel, from pointing, grasping, naming, and throwing, to descriptions of intentional acts like asserting and pretending, and the problem of vagueness, less a failure to refer than a successful reference to a contradiction. She teaches courses in Victorian game theory, literature and analytic philosophy, action in the novel, seriality, the 1890s, and Victorian melodrama. Her article “Meredith & Ends” appeared in ELH in Fall 2009.