Her current research concerns representations of health and medicine in literature from South Asia, and other areas of the Global South. Her recent scholarship appears in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Other pieces are forthcoming in Comparative Literature and the collected volume Sounds of South Asia in 2018. Kantor has also taught at Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and The University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her Masters and Ph.D.