My research ranges from literary studies to dance and performance studies.  My literary interests are in twentieth and twenty-first century literature, with special interests in postmodernism and women's writing. I have published widely on the British writer Angela Carter, including the monograph, Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques (Palgrave, 2012). I sit on the International Advisory Panel of the Angela Carter Society and regularly publish articles and book chapters in Carter studies. Current projects include an examination of the literary and wider cultural impact of existential psychiatrist R.D. Laing, for which I am preparing a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan.

I have a dance background and write and review regularly for the national dance magazine, Dance Australia; my reviews have also appeared in The Conversation, The Australian and Ballettanz, one of Europe's leading dance industry magazines. In addition to sitting on judging panels for various dance awards, I am also a member of the Adelaide Critics Circle. My monograph FIFTY: Half a Century of Australian Dance Theatre, a history of Australia’s oldest contemporary dance company, was published in 2016 by Wakefield Press. I was awarded a National Library of Australia Fellowship (2018) to research the creative process of one of Australia's mot significant choreographers, Meryl Tankard. I currently lead an ARC Linkage project LP2220200559 'Re-Activating Australian Dance Theatre's Archive for the Future', which investigates innovative ways to make the dance archive productive for future dance artists, students and scholars .

Arts and cultural policy is an emerging area of research. I am part of the tri-university group Reset, which seeks new ideas and practices to help us rethink the value of arts and culture, and re-establish their place in public policy and everyday citizenship.