Her specialty is the rhetoric of science; and she also does rhetorical criticism, rhetorical theory, and public address. Her publications include Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson (Chicago 2001); "Rhetorical Criticism and the Rhetoric of Science," Western Journal of Communication (2002); and "Polysemy: Multiple Meanings in Rhetorical Criticism," Quarterly Journal of Speech (1998).