She has been with Westminster since 2008, teaching courses in writing; autobiography; ancient, Victorian, and modernist literature; literary theory; women writers; and literature and medicine. She earned her bachelor's degree in English, summa cum laude, from Westminster and her master's and doctorate from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), where she specialized in nineteenth-century British literature and women's autobiographical narratives spanning the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Her essays have appeared in journals including Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and The College English Association Forum, as well as in the edited collection, Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World. Currently, her research focuses on the psychology of reading as it relates to narrative techniques in the Bronte sisters' novels.