Her research and teaching interests are localized with respect to historical period-Early American Cultures-but broad with respect to interest in discourses, peoples and cultures of the colonial period, and with respect to scholarly method. Prof. Knight's current research focuses on what might be called the "culture of religious emotion" in the context of women's experience in Early America. Her recent publication, "Telling it Slant: The Testimony of Mercy Short," (Early American Literature, 2002), gives a sense of her current interests.