She specializes in early Canadian literature. Journals in which her articles have appeared or are forthcoming include the Journal of Canadian Studies, Essays on Canadian Writing, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, and Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. Her most recent work has examined the role of ceremonial rhetoric in the nineteenth-century writing of Ojibwe authors George Copway/Kahgegagahbowh and Peter Edmund Jones/Kahkewaquonaby. An essay on the former has been tentatively accepted for inclusion in National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada, ed. Andrea Cabajsky (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, forthcoming 2009). Website