She also holds an adjunct faculty position at the Charleston School of Law. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is Board Certified in Forensic Psychology. After completing an internship at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at the Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Knight specializes in criminal and civil forensic evaluations including the assessment of legal competencies, criminal responsibility, sexual offender evaluations, including sexually violent predator commitment evaluations, and fitness for duty evaluations for physicians and public safety professionals. At MUSC, she teaches forensic psychiatry, and supervises residents and fellows on forensic case work within the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship program.