Her research interests include power in Old Russia; violence in the early modern period; German pamphlets about the Russians and Turks, and about Vlad III Dracula (Vlad the Impaler); the life and times of Ivan the Terrible.
Her book Erschreckende Geschichten in der Darstellung von Moskovitern und Osmanen in den deutschen Flugschriften des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts – (Stories of Atrocities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century German Pamphlets About the Russians and Turks) was published in 2014 by Lewiston, Queenston & Lampeter.