She has served as Section Head of Asian languages for the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators. Her research areas include: discourse and grammar, language change, pedagogical grammar and teaching training for East Asian languages. Her works include: Grammar in use across time and space: Deconstructing the Japanese “dative subject” construction (2007); “Co-constructing intercultural views and identities in a teaching methods class” (2014). Her next project collaborates with a researcher from a Canadian university and investigates how a Japanese connective particle is used by native speakers and learners of Japanese.