Her research interests include the implications and challenges of popular youth culture for curriculum theory, literacy studies, and pedagogy; community-media projects and pedagogies; translanguaging and the multilingual Montreal hip-hop scene; and the pedagogical implications of the life stories of Montrealers who have survived genocide and other human rights violations. Her books include Slam school: Learning through conflict in the hip-hop and spoken word classroom (Stanford UP, 2011), and most recently Community-based Media Pedagogies: Listening in the Commons (2017), with Chloe Brushwood Rose and Paula Salvio.