She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and has research and teaching interests in modern poetry and poetics, American literature, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the recipient of an NEH Faculty Fellowship for 2015-16 for her current book project, Lines of Feeling: Modernist Women’s Poetry and the Problem of Sentimentality. Her publications on women’s poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in JML, The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Women Poets, and Poet Lore.