• PhD, Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990
• MA, English, University of Massachusetts‑Boston, 1986
• BS, Nursing, Boston University, 1976 

• "Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights" – State College: Penn State University Press, 2013. (Series on Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation). State College: Penn State UP, 2013. Rhetoric Society of America Book Award, 2014.
  
• "Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored" – State College: Penn State UP, 1998. (Series on Literature and Philosophy). Ross Winterowd Book Award, 1999.

• "Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing" – Human Rights Rhetoric: Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing
• "Reversals of Precarity: Rewriting Refugees as Neoliberal Subjects” – Precarious Rhetorics. Ed. Wendy S. Hesford, Adela C. Licona, and Christa Teston. Columbus OH: Ohio State UP.

University at Buffalo:

• Professor Emerita, 2021-
• Professor, 2014-2021
• Founding Director, Center for Excellence in Writing, 2012-2015
• UB/Singapore Institute of Management Cooperative Education Program, Visiting Professor, 2004-2005
• Affiliated Faculty: Asian Studies; Global Gender Sexuality Studies; Immigration and Refugee Research Institute