She has written a book titled, Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: American Women's Verse, 1820-1885 (University Press of New England, 1998), as well as articles on Emily Dickinson and her female literary peers in The Emily Dickinson Journal, ESQ: 19th-Century American Literature and Culture, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. She has also co-edited a prizewinning book on feminist pedagogy with Jocelyn Boryczka, Jesuit and Feminist Education: Intersections in Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century (Fordham University Press, 2012). Currently, she is co-editing with Mary Lou Kete Reconsidering Lydia Sigourney: Critical Essays and Cultural Views (forthcoming 2016).