She is working on a new book project titled Ahab in Love: The Creative Reception of Moby-Dick in Popular Culture. In 2010 she published the book Poetry Goes Intermedia: U.S.-amerikanische Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive (2010). She has lectured and published on poetry films and in 2007 she was invited to Brazil to teach a workshop on “Poetry and New Media: from U.S.-American Performance Poetry to Cin(E-)Poetry to Poetry on the Internet” at UNESP, Araraquara. In 2003 she published the book Sounds of Poetry: Contemporary American Performance Poets following a research period at SUNY New Paltz and in Woodstock, NY, for her M.A. thesis at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria. She has also taught in the U.S.A. and in the Netherlands.