Her work appears in Contemporary Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and The Journal of American Studies. She is the co-editor of a volume called Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age, which appeared with Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Her current book project, The Death of Things: Ephemera in America, examines literary representations of ephemeral objects in American culture from the beginning of the twentieth century until today. Her Spring, 2016 class was the first to research and collect convention "calls," the announcements placed in newspapers to advertise upcoming conventions.