Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, coedited The Effect of Palimpsest: Culture, Literature, History with Ryszard Nycz (Peter Lang, 2011) and published The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture (Indiana University Press, 2011) for which she recieved an Honorable Mention for the Kulczycki Book Prize from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.