 In 2005, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Tasmania, in 2007 she was a visiting scholar at Maquarie University, and since 2007 she has been a Primary Visiting Faculty Member at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts at the University of Maine.Throughout her academic career, she has also served in a variety of administrative positions, such as a five-year stint as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame between 1994 and 1999.Ziarek's research brings together literary modernism, aesthetics, ethics, feminism, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, and political philosophy.