She teaches: Public Speaking; Message Evaluation; Careers in Communication; Gender and Communication; Rhetoric of American Horror Films; Conflict Management, Black American Rhetoric, Issues in Freedom of Expression, and Contemporary American Political Rhetoric. Her research interests include representations of gender in the media, women's rights rhetoric, social movement rhetoric, the rhetoric of film and television, and political rhetoric. Her work has been published in Critical Studies in Media Communication, The Western Journal of Communication, Women’s Studies in Communication, Women and Language, Feminist Media Studies, The Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, Communication Teacher, and Teaching Ideas for the Basic Communication Course.