Her areas of research and teaching expertise are Performance Ethnography, Storytelling and Personal Narrative, Qualitative Research Methods, Performance as Applied Learning, and Disabled Embodiment and Identity as Performance. Her work can be found in journals such as Text and Performance Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. Please see uncwstorytelling.org for more information about the UNCW Storytelling Performance Troupes and Performance Ethnographic film work.