She is the author of Degrees of Freedom: American Women Poets and Women’s College, 1905-1955 (2008), which looks at the poetic development of women’s college alumnae Elizabeth Bishop (Vassar), Marianne Moore (Bryn Mawr), and Sylvia Plath (Smith). She is the co-editor of The New Elizabeth Bishop: Reading the 21st Century Editions, an essay collection due out in 2012, and she is currently working on a new book project Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil. She has also written about Bishop, Moore, and Wallace Stevens for such publications as the Journal of Modern Literature and Contemporary Literature.