She completed her Ph.D. in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion. She has published articles on topics such as 1960s youth rebellion films in Cinema Journal, early 60s socially relevant dramas and Kennedy-era liberalism in Television and New Media, and on the black family sit-com Good Times in Screen. Her article on the 1960s black sit-com Julia has been reprinted in numerous anthologies. She is currently finishing up a book on the civil rights movement and television.