Welcome! 

I am currently a Professor in Kent State University's School of Information.

My interdisciplinary research, grounded in Library & Information Science and Media Studies, converges at the intersection of books and technology in new literary formats, from picture book apps to multi-platform books, and includes:

• Fandom and participatory literary experiences; 
• Affective and immaterial labor; 
• User-generated content and “remix” books; 
• Multi-literacies required to interpret non-linear, multimodal, digital-age books;
• Publishing for young readers, genre construction and the commodification of books, international children’s literature, and transnational publishing;
• Youth services librarianship, reviews, awards, the literary canon and arbiters of taste;
• Children's information seeking behavior in everyday settings; 
• History of children's publishing and librarianship, and the gendered professions within . . .