She also teaches first-year writing courses with an emphasis on environmental issues. Her research interests include material and cultural rhetorics, the use of popular culture in freshmen composition classrooms, ecocomposition, and the professionalization of new writing teachers. In the MTW she teaches Theories in Composition, Writing across the Curriculum, Thesis/Portfolio, and Composition Teaching Practicum. She is a member of the Online Learning and Teaching committee at AUM and is currently focused, like her colleagues, on converting core courses in the MTW to online formats.