Her research interests include appropriations of science by modernist poets and the visual rhetoric of molecular biology, although she has also published on the Egyptian short story and on x-ray crystallography. Trained in comparative literature, she has long been interested in issues of linguistic and cross-cultural translation, and she also hopes to explore the metaphors of translation used in popular science and technical writing. For the summer institute, she will be revising her draft translation of Júlio Dinis’s 1868 novel,An English Family: Science from Life in Oporto, which describes the life of a British family living in Portugal.