[3] Campbell's novels explore professional and personal relationships between women and literary theoretical concerns, often in a non-standard 'experimental' writing style.
In addition to novels, her work includes short fiction, poetry, and essays and reviews for journals.
For the stage, Campbell has written the musical theatre piece Dr. Memory in the Dream Home which was first performed in 1990 and an adaption of Not Being Miriam entitled Ariadne's Understudies in 1991.
In 2013, Campbell was appointed Associate Professor of Professional and Creative Writing at Deakin University.
Campbell has previously coordinated the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne.