She holds a Doctor of Arts in English from Idaho State University and a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Houston-Victoria. Her published works include “Géricault, Tennyson, and the Unreliable Narrator: The Medical Case Study as a Rhetorical Model for Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art” (Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2009) and “An Interdisciplinary Convo: The Iliad and the Odyssey as Conversation Starters” (Oklahoma English Journal, 2012). Her personal and academic interests include rare book collecting, art history, assessment methodologies, and pedagogical innovation.