Her scholarly area of research is religious performance in 19th-20th century America and has been published in Theatre Journal, The State of the Art, and Theatre Topics. Her first book, Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama from Routledge Press (2009) won the Mormon History Association Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award. Her secon d book project is Walking with the Dead: Reanimating America in Mormon Pageant Performance. Megan is also a director/choreographer whose credits at BYU include Romeo and Juliet, Arabian Nights, and elementary school touring production of Henry 5 where Henry was played by a woman. Much of her scholarship deals with the representation of women on stage and screen. Her directing is particularly focused on women’s issues both in content (the plays she chooses to direct) and in form (how she chooses to direct them).