She regularly teaches courses on grammar and the teaching of writing, as well as all levels of first-year writing. She developed the Writing and Professional Communication minor, and also teaches technical and business writing. She received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing from Bowling Green State University in 2009, where she wrote her dissertation studying cookbooks as a multimodal, feminist genre. She has most recently been published in the edited collection Type Matters (Parlor Press, 2017) and was an invited contributor to the University of Michigan Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative's Spring 2017 blog carnival. Dr. Fleitz is the Reviews section editor for the peer-reviewed journal Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.