She has published widely on early Canadian women writers, most recently on Sara Jeannette Duncan and L.M. Montgomery. She has published a chapter on regionalism and urbanism in The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature (2004) and a chapter on journalists, novelists, suffragettes, and performers in The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (2008). She is the editor of Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination (2007) and author of The Woman’s Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada (2008). She is the Director of the Anthology Collection at the University of Ottawa Press.