She specializes in freshman composition and rhetoric and literary analysis, young adult literature, and grant writing. She is also the director of the University Writing Center, an interdisciplinary and collaborative writing resource for LCU's undergraduate and graduate students. Jana has a bachelor's degree in English and Secondary Education and a Master's degree in English Literature from Abilene Christian University, where her areas of interest included Victorian and American literature. Her thesis explored the role of women in William Faulkner's novels.