She is also the Director and co-founder of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Arts and Sciences at Nipissing University. She specializes in modernist and contemporary American literature, as well as gender and media studies. Her research interests highlight the importance of trans-disciplinary crossings as a means of critical, but also ethical and socio-cultural inquiry. She has published chapters in books and articles in international journals. She was a guest editor of Double Dialogues Issue 15 on hunger in the arts. With Dr. Ann McCulloch, she also co-edited a book titled Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2012). She is currently finishing a book on American modernism. Her book on contemporary American literature and consumerism is to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.