She earned a doctoral degree in Curriculum & Instruction and Composition Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. Her doctoral dissertation is a study of writing in Biochemistry based on the perspectives of M.M. Bahktin, L.V. Vygotsky, and M. Nystrand. She has been teaching, giving training in, conducting research studies and presenting some scholarly works on academic writing in the United States and Thailand. Her interest is in teaching and learning an academic discourse, composition studies, and education administration.