Her first book, Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America (U of Alabama P, 2014), studies the historical emergence and influence of the Transcendentalists' strained visual metaphors for writing and traces their subsequent treatments in the hands of other nineteenth-century American writers, including Douglass, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Howells. Her articles on Emily Dickinson, Sarah Winnemucca, and other nineteenth-century American writers have appeared in the Emily Dickinson Journal, Nineteenth-Century Literature, American Literary Realism, and Arizona Quarterly, and her essay on transcendentalism and women's poetry is forthcoming in A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2016).