She teaches Basic Writing, Introduction to Expository Writing, and literature courses like the Survey of British LiteratureII and Images of Women in Literature. She has a Ph.D. in English with a supporting program in popular culture from the University of Minnesota, where she also taught writing, surveys of British Literature, Shakespeare, and introductory literature courses spanning all genres. She worked as a copywriter before graduate school and as an academic adviser after. She blogs about romance novels and tropes on the NEH-funded Popular Romance Project website. Her first book, MakingMeaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemologywas published in 2014 by Palgrave MacMillan. She is co-Vice President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance.