Her main areas of research include Jewish Studies, Medicine and Literature, and Austrian Studies. She is author of Vienna is Different (Berghahn 2011), a study of Viennese-Jewish literature from the mid-19th-century to the present, and co-editor of Rebirth of a Culture (Berghahn, 2008), a collection of essays exploring German/Austrian-Jewish culture at the turn of the 21st century. She co-edits The Journal of Austrian Studies. She enjoys teaching at all levels from beginning language study to graduate seminars.