Her research explores the interconnections between language ideologies, identity, and learner agency in adult immigrants’ accounts of learning and using English and other languages. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, and two of her recent publications include The Language of Adult Immigrants: Agency in the Making (2014) and the co-edited volume Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches (2015), both published by Multilingual Matters. She has been a participating member of AAAL since 1999, has reviewed abstracts nearly every year since 2002, and has served as a Strand Coordinator three times.