She joined the UMass faculty in the Fall of 2007 and teaches in the Department's Professional Writing and Technical Communications Program http://www.umass.edu/pwtc/ . She holds a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in writing studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests span the field of rhetoric and composition, though she is particularly interested in technical communication, digital media, gender, and histories of technology and literate activity. She is currently working on a book-length project that analyzes the intersections of gender, technology, and literacy in early twentieth century American career advice texts for women.