Her research focuses on the intersections between poststructuralist theory and the historiography of rhetoric. Her publications include Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure; Twentieth Century Rhetoric Rhetoric and Rhetoricians; Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricans; and Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric. Her current interest is in regarding the dead as a historiographical mode, as is the subject of her book in progress, Paranormal Investigations into the History of Rhetoric.