She teaches a range of courses including the American Survey, Women Writers, Foundations of Literary Studies and the Senior Capstone Seminar. Her publications on Edith Wharton, and other American writers including Willa Cather, Mark Twain and Abraham Cahan have appeared in essay collections and the journals Studies in the Novel, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Journal of the Short Story in English and Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies.