She earned a B.A. in English from the College of William and Marym an M.A. in English from Wake Forest University, and a Ph.D. in English fro the University of Houston. Following her Ph.D. she spent a year at Georgia Tech as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, earning Postdoctoral Certifications in Digital Pedagogy and Technical Communication. She has published articles on her creative digital assignments in Writing and the Digital Generation, and the College English Association Forum. Her most recent book project, a comparative literary biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow, is under review at the University Press of Florida. Her science fiction course includes guest lecturers fromvarious university disciplines and direct instruction in developing HTML projects.