Her interests include writing instruction, genre theory and pedagogy, poetic language theory and instruction, multimodality, and arts-based education. Drawing on multiple methods, including poetic inquiry, her research spans a number of areas including literacy and language, creative writing, humanities and aesthetic philosophy, and teacher education. Most recently, she is investigating teachers' knowledge, craft, and dispositions with regard to reading, writing and teaching poetry and preadolescents' poetry genre knowledge and development.