She was the recipient of the NCSA President's Award in 2015. She previously served on the Executive Board as the Electronics Communications officer, and she created, launched, and maintained NCSA’s first professional website. She also served on and chaired the Article Prize Committee. She was the program director for the 2005 conference on "Infantuation" in Augusta and the 2009 conference on "The Green Nineteenth Century" in Milwaukee, as well as the local arrangements coordinator for the 2014 conference in Chicago. Her recent publications include “The Zoocentric Ecology of Thomas Hardy’s Poetry" (in Victorian Writers and the Environment, Routledge, 2016) and “The Narrative Promise: Redesigning History in La Gazette du Vieux Paris.” (CEA Critic, 2016).