Julie's interdisciplinary research spans a range of interests and expertise in composition studies, rhetorical theory, nineteenth-century studies, and film studies, with particular concentrations in critical race and gender studies and critical theory. Her publications include articles in journals such as American Literature and Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, and she has a chapter on gender and mobility in a forthcoming collection on the films Todd Haynes. She has a sustained focus on the intersections of science and culture, and is currently completing a manuscript titled Engineering Womanhood: The Rhetorics of Gender, Science, and Reform, 1830-1930.