She teaches language-related courses for pre-service teachers, including those that emphasize at their curricular core issues of critical literacy, sociolinguistics, and digital literacies. Her current research is situated in New Literacies Studies and the impact of digital writing and social networking tools on the understandings and identities of pre-service and in-service teachers and their students. A second strand of research considers the potential of action research (teacher research) for supporting pre-service teachers’ understandings of literacy as a complex social practice, and of literacy instruction as apprenticing students into the discourses and social practices of literate communities.