Professor Danger joined the Valparaiso University English faculty in 2004 as a member of the Lilly Fellows program.

One of the things she appreciates most about VU is the sense of community and mutual regard that students and faculty share. She observes that intellectual work is strengthened and sustained by a community like Valparaiso University, where teaching and scholarship are valued and enrich one another.

Professor Danger believes that her role as a professor is to encourage students to critically grapple with, and stretch their empathetic responses to, the various perspectives raised by texts. She values literature for placing readers inside profound questions of human experience and cognition, and wants to share that with her students.

Her teaching specialties include nineteenth-century British and American literature, Victorian visual culture, image and text, gender studies, Romantic literature, the novel, children's literature, and literary theory and composition. Her current research focuses on the interplay between 19th-century literature, printed images, and cultural ideologies of gender and class. She is presently writing a book-length study of popular illustrated fiction by Victorian women writers published between 1830 and 1865.

In her free time Professor Danger likes running, biking, and spending time with her husband and daughters. She also enjoys traveling and cooking.

Professor Danger earned her B.A. from Concordia College-Moorhead in English and Spanish, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas.