Mizejewski has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Slovakia and Romania, and her research has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. At Ohio State, she has won the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and the Harlan Hatcher Distinguished Faculty Award. In the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, she has developed new courses in popular culture and women’s literature, as well as a service-learning course, "Feminist Perspectives on Addiction." She serves on the board of the Collegiate Recovery Community on campus and is a speaker for the Ohio Humanities Council. 

Book Publications

• Co-editor with Victoria Sturtevant, Hysterical! Women in American Comedy (University of Texas Press, 2017)

• Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics, (University of Texas Press, 2014).

• It Happened One Night, (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). 

• Hardboiled and High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture, (Routledge, 2004).

• Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema, (Duke University Press, 1999).

• Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles, (Princeton University Press, 1992).