Academic interests

Contemporary Young Adult and Children's literature; American literature; Native American literature, magical realism, Women's Studies

Awards

• Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Award, 2017
• IUPUI Trustees' Teaching Award, 2013 & 2016
• Children's Literature Association Faculty Research Grant, 2014
• Indiana Arts and Humanities Institute Grant, 2013-14
• EMPOWER Grant, 2012-13
• Turner-Davis Boundary Crossing Award, 2011

Publications

• Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature: Imaginary Activism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 
• "Gamer Girls, Gold Farming, and Activism In Real Life." Children's Literature in Education, 2016. 
• "Gaming as Civic Engagement in Salman Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life." Children's Literature Quarterly, 2015. 
• “Phenomenal Women: The Shape-Shifter Archetype in Postcolonial Magical Realist Fiction.” FEMSPEC, 2005. 
• Co-Editor of Mary Robinson's "A Letter to the Women of England," a Romantic Circles Electronic Edition.