Professor Mayne's areas of teaching and research interest are French cinema and feminist film studies. She is the author of eight books, including The Woman at the Keyhole (1990), Cinema and Spectatorship (1993), Directed by Dorothy Arzner (1994), and Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture (2000). Her most recent books are studies of French film director Claire Denis (U. of Illinois Press, 2005), and of the controversial 1943 film Le Corbeau (I. B. Tauris, 2007).