[2] Weston's research interests include Old English wisdom poetry; texts related to magic or ritual; and representations of sex and gender in ecclesiastical writings, liturgy, and hagiography.
[6] Her chapter "Virgin Desires: Reading a Homoerotics of Female Monastic Community" features in The Lesbian Premodern, edited by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt, published in 2011 with Palgrave Macmillan.
Reading all three texts in conjunction, she tracks the intricacies of “becoming a virgin in community” (95) in order to determine how gender and sexuality are both reoriented in the process of becoming a nun".
for the journal postmedieval, Weston records the dwindling financial support for medieval programmes of study in the US, and criticises neoliberal models of higher education.
[10] This article was reprinted in the 2016 reader Old English Literature: A Guide to Criticism with Selected Readings edited by John Niles and published by Wiley-Blackwell.
[16] Weston's chapter "Saintly lives: friendship, kinship, gender and sexuality" features in the Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature edited by Clare Lees in 2013.