She trains pre-service English teachers in both the primary and secondary school teacher education programs. Her areas of research include computer-mediated second language acquisition, task-based language teaching in online environments, and the intersection of online media fandoms and language learning. Her current line of research explores the use of collaborative fanfiction writing to bridge language and literary learning for advanced L2 learners of English. She is the past president of the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), co-editor with Carol Chapelle of the Handbook of Technology in Second Language Teaching and Learning (Wiley Blackwell). Videos related to her work on fanfiction for language teaching are available on YouTube, and her research publications can be accessed on Academia.edu. She can also be found at @shansauro on Twitter.