• Ph.D. Rhetoric – Texas Woman’s University, May 2008.
• Bachelor of Arts English – University of Maryland, University College/Asian Division, Okinawa, Japan, 1999
• Magna Cum Laude
• Master of Arts English – Midwestern State University, 2002.

Research interests include study of the trickster in American literature, the developing rhetoric of new media, effects of technology on first-year college composition instruction, rhetoric in literature, science fiction and fantasy in the arts, technical communication, and electronic literature.