Valenti School of Communication. She teaches health communication courses at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as qualitative research methods at the graduate level. Her research focuses on narrative inquiry and practice in health communication and aging, particularly in the contexts of creative engagement, community, and long-term care. She is the lead co-author of Storied Health and Illness: Communicating Personal, Cultural, and Political Complexities, an innovative text that offers a unique narrative approach to the study of health communication.