Book publications:

• British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood. Ashgate's Studies in Childhood Series: 1700-Present series. Surry, UK:Ashgate Publishers, January 2016. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409454304 
• “Perplext by Faith:” Essays on Victorian Beliefs and Doubts, Co-edited with Julie Melnyk. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015. 
• Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel. Ohio University Press, Nov. 2002. 226pp. with music illustrations. 

Victorian literature:

• “O, Come, All Ye Children: Christmas Carols in Victorian Children’s Hymnbooks.” The Hymn: A Journal of Congregational Song. Vol. 68. No. 1 (Winter 2017). Forthcoming. 
• “Writing for, Yet Apart: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Contentious Status as Hymn Writers and Editors of Hymnbooks for Children.” Victorian Literature and Culture. Vol. 40. Issue 1. (March 2012): Pp. 47-81. 
• “The Contentious ‘Figure’ of Music in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy.” The Hardy Society Journal. Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer 2006): 26-34. 
• “Indecent Musical Displays: Feminizing the Pastoral in Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.” in The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction. Ed. Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff.  Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2004.  129-149. 
• “Marginalized Musical Interludes: Tennyson’s Critique of Conventionality in The Princess.” Victorian Poetry. Volume 38.  Number 2 (Summer 2000): 227-248. 
• “Dinah and the Secularization of Methodist Hymnody in Eliot’s Adam Bede.” Victorians Institute Journal. Volume 26 (1998): 40-68. 

Children's literature:

• “Nineteenth-Century British Children’s Hymnody: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood with Chords and Verses.”  Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Vol. 35, Issue 2 (Summer 2010): 144-175. 
• “Help! I’m a Feminist but My Daughter is a ‘Princess Fanatic’! Disney’s Transformation of Twenty-First-Century Girls.”  Children's Folklore Review. Vol. 32 (2010): 7-22. 
• “Battle on the Gender Homefront: Depictions of the American Civil War in Contemporary Young-Adult Literature.”  Children’s Literature in Education. On-line and Vol. 38, Number 2 (June 2007): 153-161. 
• “The Power of Women, the Power of Teens: Re-visioning Gender and Age in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Mystery Series.” in Exploring Culturally Diverse Literature for Children and Adolescents: Learning to Listen in New Ways.” Ed. Darwin L. Henderson & Jill P. May. Boston: Pearson and Allyn/Bacon, 2005. 286-299. 

Awards and grants:

• 2011 - Winner, Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, IU-system 
• 2009 - Winner, All-Campus Helen Lees Teaching Award, Indiana University East
• 2002 - Winner, Horizon Teaching Award, Indiana University East
• 2014 - Recipient, Indiana University East Research Grant 
• 2014 - Recipient, New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Exploratory Travel Fellowship, IU System-wide 
• 2012 - Recipient, Excellence in Research Award, IU East 
• 2010 - Recipient, New Frontiers Grant in the Arts and Humanities, IU-system-wide grant 
• 2009 - Recipient (1 of 3 nationally), Children’s Literature Association Faculty Research Award. 
• 2006 - Recipient, New Frontiers/Arts & Humanities Exploration Traveling Fellowship, IU System  
• 2003 - Membership to the Faculty of the Indiana University Graduate School with Full Status 

Select professional positions:

• Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Executive Secretary, 2004-2014. 
• Children’s Literature Association, Carol Gay Undergraduate Writing Award, 2006, 2007
• Phoenix Picture Book Award Committee, 2010-present.