Her publications cover French civilization, language pedagogy, and medieval literature. Her textbook Commercial French, designed for international exams of the Paris Chamber of Commerce, was identified as a classic in reviews of later books. One of her articles in French Review won a Gilbert Chinard prize awarded by the Institut Français de Washington. She won the 1974 Holmes prize for her dissertation in medieval studies, and she was selected to talk before the Medieval Academy of America as a winner in the Academy's 1977 Competition for Young Scholars. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs designated her a knight in the Order of Academic Palms for her lifetime contributions. More detail on these and other contributions appear under her web cv.