My research interests are in intellectual freedom, censorship, social media, and community discourse.

My dissertation “Tweet of the Town:” Synthesizing Local and Social Media Discourse on Book Bans, explores how community discourse in online and local spaces intersects during a book ban. I examine the banning of Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoir Maus by the McMinn County School Board in 2022 as a case study for this. I conducted 12 semi-structured interviews with residents of McMinn County during the ban and collected 2000 tweets from Twitter in which users discussed the ban. Using open coding and Danielle Allen’s discourse flow model as a theoretical framework, I argue that local and community discourse during a book ban influence one another by shaping perceptions of the affected community. Through this project, I hope to provide greater insight into how local communities respond to book bans and what those outside of the community can do to assist those in communities fighting bans.

I have presented at the Association for Library and Information Science (ALISE), American Association of Law Libraries, and Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).

My book chapter in the The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture, “Censorship and Shifting Contexts in Children’s Literature,” addresses the history of censorship and contemporary interpretations of the subject using Dr. Seuss as a case study.