She has engaged in disability advocacy in higher education since she served as the first graduate-student member on the MLA Committee on Disability Issues (1997-2000), and recently served a two-year term as president of the Society for Disability Studies (2012-2014). Along with Elizabeth Hamilton and Ian Sutherland, Berberi co-edited Worlds Apart? Disability and Foreign Language Learning (Yale UP, 2008) and has published a number of articles related to the representation of disability in the poetry of Tristan Corbière. With Christian Flaugh, Berberi also co-edited a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies on Disability in French and Francophone Worlds (summer 2016).