Dr. Mabary’s research interests center on Czech music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, namely the life and works of Antonín Dvořák, Zdeňek Fibich, Bohuslav Martinů, and Vítězslava Kaprálová, as well as the genre of Czech melodrama. The re­sults of her research in these areas have appeared in publications by Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, Routledge Press, Lexington Books, and Pendragon Press. Her book Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands in Concert and on Stage, in which she considers the history of the genre from its beginnings in the eighteenth century through the twentieth, was released in 2021 by Routledge, a division of Taylor & Francis. Her chapter on "Women in Czech Opera" is forthcoming from Cambridge in the volume A History of Music in the Czech Lands. She is presently under contract with Routledge for a monograph titled Jeannette Meyer Thurber as Patron and Entrepreneur: Making America's Music. Thurber was responsible for providing opportunities in the United States for disadvantaged composers and performers with her founding of the American Opera Company and the National Conservatory of Music in America in 1885.

Dr. Mabary has given guest lectures and presentations in numerous local and national venues and has presented papers at academic conferences, nationally and internationally, on topics related to the above areas of interest, several of which appear in published conference proceedings. 

As a historical musicologist, Dr. Mabary teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She received master’s and doctoral degrees in musicology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri as well as a master’s in vocal performance from the University of Missouri-Columbia.