She is the author of American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History (2014). With Melissa Littlefield (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), she has published The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain (2012), a groundbreaking collection of academic essays that explores the rapid rush to “neuro-fy” academic disciplines (such as neurosociology, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory). She has published essays in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Journal of Advanced Composition, Medicine Studies, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and Advances in Medical Sociology: Sociological Perspectives on Neuroscience.