In her research, Sarah Le Van has been primarily fascinated with the correspondance, or relationship, between the various art forms particularly during the 19th and early 20th century, whether it be music, literature, and visual media. She is currently exploring the idea of an "interart aesthetic" in Debussy's works. Ms. Le Van hopes to trace the composer's trajectory from his interest in Pre-Raphaelite art to his affinity for symbolist painters and writers such as Whistler and Baudelaire, especially as expressed in  Pelléas et Mélisande. This opera reveals Pre-Raphaelite themes that were also espoused by the Symbolists, their artistic descendants. The shared symbolist and interart philosophy of both Whistler and Baudelaire (by way of Poe, for example), and the way Debussy communicates these ideas musically in his opera are areas she would like to investigate further.