Her research explores post-war British, Irish, and North American theatre, film, and graphic fiction. She is particularly concerned with the cultural representation of madness, trauma, and pain. Alongside her academic work Anna is the co-artistic director of her theatre company, Idiot Child, with whom she works as a writer and director. In addition to this Anna works as a freelance director. Her research has been supported by the AHRC and her recent publications include Performance, Madness, Psychiatry: Isolated Acts and ‘Revisiting the Puzzle Factory: Cultural Representations of Psychiatric Asylums’ in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Aspects of her work explores the relationship between popular culture and stigma and she has published work which examines TV horror and film in relation to social conceptions of madness.