Mary Gibaldi is a PhD student specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and narrative theory. While her primary research interests include the intersection of spatial and architectural poetics and the American novel, her work also attends to feminist theory, working-class studies and the mythos surrounding the American frontier. She has presented her work at the Southwest Popular and American Culture Association Conference, the Gender and Women’s Studies Symposium at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and the Working-Class Studies Association Conference in Kent, England. Mary is passionate about inclusive teaching and pedagogies that support working-class, first-generation and English language learning students. She recently served as the assistant director of the English as a Second Language Resource Center at California State University, Chico.