Dr Lawless has published on the nineteenth-century Spanish short story, early Spanish science fiction, authors Rosalía de Castro, Rosa Chacel, Leopoldo Alas, Antonio Ros de Olano, Silverio Lanza and others. She is particularly interested in questions of temporality, and particularly futurity and the imagination of future time. She is co-founder of the International Network for Nineteenth-Century Hispanism and co-organizes the annual meetings, and with Prof. Andrew Ginger co-edited "Spain in the Nineteenth Century: New Essays on Experiences of Culture and Society" (Manchester UP).