She holds a PhD from Duquesne University. Her publications include Philosophical Leisure: Recuperative Praxis for Human Communication and Lizzie Borden Took an Axe or Did She?. Her coedited books include Philosophies of Communication: Implications for Everyday Experience and Media and the Apocalypse. She has also published articles in The Review of Communication, Human Communication, Speaker and Gavel, Florida Communication Journal, New Hampshire Journal of Education, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, World Leisure Journal, and the Pennsylvania Speech Communication Annual.