Her research and teaching interests include early modern English literature, lyric and epic poetry, critical animal studies, humor studies and geocritical approaches to literature. She is the author of articles and essays on Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and the twinned history of ether and laughter. Her current book project, “Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety,” explores anxieties about cartographic materials in English Renaissance literature and likens the early modern reaction to the state and surveillance uses of maps to current political, social and judicial debates about the uses of digital mapping techniques.