In 2014, she published her first book, All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents (Johns Hopkins UP)—charting the history and economy of “charged humor” or stand-up comedy aimed at social justice—and is a contributing author to several edited collections including the forthcoming edited collection, Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy (University of Texas Press, 2017). She is currently working on a new book project that focuses on 21st century preppers/survivalists and has several forthcoming chapters in edited collections on humor such as Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers, Taking a Stand: American Stand-up Comedians as Public Intellectuals, and Political Comedy: Critical Encounters.