After having been a bookworm, an English major, and a theatre freak, I decided it was high time to actually do something with my BA in English. I went to graduate school at Arizona State University and discovered Rhetoric and Composition. I began teaching and got addicted to the idea that I can sit in the classroom with great people, talking about ideas and theories, and putting them into action through writing.

I teach Rhetoric, Composition, and American literature at MSU. My research is focused on the intersections of rhetoric, ideology, activism and gender. I wrote my dissertation on Shulamith Firestone, a brilliant radical second wave feminist whose book changed the way I see the world.

Currently I am researching “radical,” anything and everything to do with the term as it applies to or is applied to women in social movements.