Shepherd's research has focused primarily on the way that plays and performances "have engaged with scientific ideas", which she has explored in her books
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (2006), and
Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (2015), the research for which was funded by a
Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2011–12. She also specialises on the work of the Norwegian playwright
Henrik Ibsen, publishing
Ibsen and Early Modernist Theatre, 1890–1900 in 1997. •
Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) • "'Unmediated' Science Plays: Seeing What Sticks", in Willis, M. (ed.),
Staging Science: Scientific Performances on Street, Stage, and Screen, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 105–123 • "The Diagnostic Gaze: Nineteenth-Century Contexts for Performance and Medicine" in Bouchard, G., Mermikides, A. (eds.),
Performance and the Medical Body (Routledge, 2016), pp. 37–50 • (with S. Eltis), "What Was the New Drama?" in Marcus, L., Mendelssohn, M., Shepherd-Barr, K. E. (eds.),
Late Victorian into Modern (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) •
Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett (Columbia University Press, 2015) • "'I'm Evolving!': Varieties of Evolution on the Victorian Stage" in Lightman, B., Zon, B. (eds.),
Evolution and Victorian Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 149–172 • "'It Was Ugly': Maternal Instinct on Stage at the Fin de Siècle",
Women: a cultural review, vol. 23, issue 2 (2012), pp. 216–234 • "Staging Modernism: A New Drama" in Brooker, P., Gasiorek, A., Longworth, D., and Thacker, A.,
The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 122–138 • "Des 'Lien significatifs': Luca Ronconi et les scientifiques ['Meaningful Joinings': Luca Ronconi and the Scientists]",
Alternatives Theatrales, issue 102–103 (2009), pp. 28–33 • "Darwin on Stage: Evolutionary Theory in the Theatre",
Interdiscipliniary Science Reviews, vol. 33, issue 2 (2008), pp. 107–115 • "The Development of Norway’s National Theatres" in Wilmer, S. E. (ed.),
National Theatres in a Changing Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 85–98 • "Wilde About Ibsen: The Fusion of Dramatic Modes in A Woman of No Importance" in Smith, P. E. (ed.),
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008), pp. 126–134 • "Science and Theatre in Open Dialogue: Biblioetica, Le Cas de Sophie K., and the Postdramatic Science Play",
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2006), pp. 245–253 • "Ibsen's Globalism",
Ibsen Studies (2006), pp. 188–198 •
Science on Stage From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (Princeton University Press, 2006) • "From Copenhagen to Infinity and Beyond: Science Meets Literature on Stage",
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 28, issue 3 (2003) • "Hilbert's Hotel, Other Paradoxes, Come to Life in New 'Math Play'",
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, vol 36, issue 7 (2003) • "Acting out the search for infinity",
Physics World, vol. 16, issue 7 (2003), pp. 38–39 • "Reconsidering Joyce's Exiles in its Theatrical Context",
Theatre Research International, vol. 28, issue 2 (2003), pp. 169–180 • "Copenhagen and Beyond: The ‘Rich and Mentally Nourishing' Interplay of Science and Theatre",
Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, vol. 10 (2002) • "Science as Theater",
American Scientist, vol. 90, issue 6 (2002), pp. 550–550 • "Ibsen, Munch, and the Relationship between Modernist Theatre and Art",
Nordic Theatre Studies (Special issue on Historiography), vol. 12 (2000), pp. 43–53 • "'Mise en Scent': The Théâtre d'Art's Cantique des cantiques and the Use of Smell as a Theatrical Device",
Theatre Research International, vol. 24, issue 2 (1999), pp. 152–159 • "Madeleines and Neuromodernism: Reassessing Mechanisms of Autobiographical Memory in Proust",
Biography Studies, vol. 13, issue 1 (1998), pp. 39–60 •
Ibsen and Early Modernist Theatre, 1890–1900 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997) == References ==