She has previously taught at Cornell University and Claremont Graduate University. Her recent book publications include Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives (2012), and she is editor of TransGothic in Literature and Culture (Routledge 2017) and Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature (2013). Her current research interests lie in the intersections of death, the Victorian novel, and the law. Her courses focus on Gothic literature, the work of Charles Dickens, and gender and sexuality. She is a recent recipient of the UNI Apple Polishers Award for teaching and mentoring.