Much of my research deals with the representation of asylum seekers and refugees in theatre, film, performance installation and writing. My work in this area engages with theoretical concepts relating to sovereign biopower, border politics, cosmopolitanism and indigeneity, tracing an overarching concern with ‘affective work’ across the boundaries of nation, language and territory. I am currently writing two books: Theatre & Migration (Palgrave 2013) and Across the Borderlines: Cultural Responses to Asylum Seekers in Twenty-First Century Australia.

I am in the early stages of a project dealing with points of contact in art and activism between indigenous groups and forced migrants in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, with an emphasis on ways in which Aboriginal and Maori articulations of sovereign and/or territorial authority rehearse certain demarcations of national community.

I have an ongoing research interest in Shakespeare and Jonson in performance, particularly 'localised' Australasian work, and have written several articles and book chapters on postcolonial, indigenous and intercultural projects on stage and film.

As an arts critic for Australian broadsheet newspapers between 2005 and 2006, I published numerous reviews of theatre, dance, circus and music (Courier-Mail), art exhibitions (Courier-Mail) and books (Sydney Morning Herald).

I am currently Associate Editor of the British Australian Studies Association (BASA) scholarly Journal, Australian Studies.

I co-ordinate the Performance and Asylum transnational research network at Royal Holloway.