She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas. Dr. Triece teaches courses in rhetorical theory and criticism and public speaking. Her areas of research include social movement rhetoric; feminist and marxist theories and criticisms. She is the author of On The Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women During the Depression (University of Illinois Press, 2007); Protest and Popular Culture: Women in the U.S. Labor Movement, 1894-1917 (Westview Press, 2001); and articles in Critical Studies in Mass Communication and Women's Studies in Communication.