After earning her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri, Columbia for two years. She has presented papers at numerous national conferences and at international conferences, and has published in Theatre Topics, Studies in Popular Culture, The Journal of American Culture, American Theatre, New England Theatre Journal, and Research in Drama Education. She is coauthor of the musical Oedipus!, published by Baker's Plays, and is currently writing a book on women stage directors of the United States for the University of Illinois Press.