Before coming to Hofstra in 2005, she was a civilian professor at the United States Military Academy. Her teaching and publications focus on students' professional identity, metacognition, nostalgia, satiric news, and the rhetoric of apostasy. She has been honored by the Communal Studies Association for her work on the Shakers. She enjoys teaching writing within the First Year Connections (FYC) program, particularly with the cluster "Democracy, Politics and Policy: What's Fair in the United States?"