She serves as faculty advisor for CommWorks, a student group committed to performance. She received her PhD in Performance Studies with a Gender Studies portfolio from The University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation examined unruly femininities in various women's staged performances, which included solo feminist performance art, the production of a Paula Vogel play, a Chicana comic book superhero, and a feminist punk band. Her research and teaching interests include feminist performance and directing practices, performance art and social justice, resistant representations of gender, sexuality and race in popular culture, performances of multicultural literature, and performance ethnographic methods.