My research informs my practice in teaching and administration by examining composition pedagogy and theory, writing centers, responding to student writing, learning transfer, dispositions, and writing development. My co-authored and solo-authored articles have appeared in The Peer Review, Composition Forum, WAC-GO Newsletter, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal and WLN’s digital edited collection. I also regularly present at CCCC and IWCA.

Along with three amazing colleagues (Dana Driscoll, Jen Wells and Katherine Rothschild) from across the U.S., I just received a $10,000 research grant from the CCCC Research Initiative to study how students at various, diverse institutions transfer their writing knowledge and skills to other academic or personal contexts.

In addition to this project, I’m hard at work on several articles about different topics: responding to student writing and critical pedagogy, the response practices of graduate teachers, writing centers and their role in retention, and an autoethnographic work on my time in the writing center.

When I find spare time, I also like to write Horror Fiction, and have published poems about teaching and professional experiences.