Her current project explores American Cold War adolescent girl novels (1942-1967) in relation to the consumer-based and deeply-classed adolescence that accompanied their publication. She examines these texts in conjunction with their culture of production and distribution, focusing on the relationships between editors, librarians, and critics. As gendered as the culture that produced them, these texts provide evidence of a unique female society, silently operating under patriarchy, in which females (characters and producers/ distributors) networked with each other to create their own semi-autonomous community.