Rebecca teaches Shakespeare, early modern women's writing, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts. She was guest-curator of "Beyond Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science" at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is co-author (with Jennifer Munroe, UNC-Charlotte) of Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory (2017), a recent addition to the Arden Shakespeare and Theory Series.