She is the author of Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising: Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381 (Penn State UP, 2013) and is currently writing a theorized book on working-class women in the professoriate. Arner has published articles on various late medieval English texts and on women in contemporary American academe; she also guest-edited a special issue of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Arner teaches medieval English literature, gender studies, and contemporary theory to a predominantly working-class student body in the region where she was raised.