She has published two children's books,[1] but is more widely known as a feminist scholar who investigates women's health issues through a cultural lens and whose work addresses the under-researched intersection between feminism and the study of religion.

[2] She is also a past Editor of Network, the national, bilingual health magazine for Canadian women, and has published several books addressing feminist theory and methodology.

O'Grady is currently a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.

Professor Pamela Sue Anderson of Oxford University has written that O’Grady is "a stellar scholar on French thinking, who writes brilliantly, with subtle, sophisticated and insightful prose about Kristeva, religion and feminism.

Her co-edited volume, Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology (Sheffield),[11] along with several journal and book articles on the topic of women and religion,[12][13][14] profile the important ways in which feminist thinkers are enriching and transforming traditional representations of women's religious lives.