She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including writing as social action, first-year writing, composition pedagogy, mindful storytelling, creative nonfiction, and rhetorical studies of culture. She is author of Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in English Composition (2005) and co-editor of three essay collections, including Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing (2012) co-edited with Tiffany Rousculp and Steve Parks. With Diana George, she has cowritten several articles about the rhetorical power of the dissident press. She has published in Rhetoric Review, College Composition and Communications, JAC, Composition Studies, Community Literacy Journal, and more. She is a current editorial board member for College Composition and Communication, the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series, and Community Literacy Journal.