Her research interests include media representations of gender and sexuality, girl culture, monsters in popular culture, media adaptations, and media convergence. She has published essays on film, television, and visual culture in Literature and Psychology, Rhizomes, and Feminist Media Studies, and has contributed chapters to the essay collections Cyberfeminism 2.0 and Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader. She is currently working on a book on revisionist fairytales in contemporary popular culture. She is also the Associate Editor of the online journal The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media, and Culture.