She is the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University.

She is currently the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

In 2015, Wheeler joined the board of trustees of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs as the Mid Atlantic Regional Council Chair.

[5] She has published two books of literary scholarship: Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present (Cornell UP 2008)[6] and The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove (U of Tennessee P 2002)[7] She also co-edited the collection Letters to the World: Poems from Members of the Women's Poetry Listserv (Red Hen 2008).

[8] Her works have been reviewed in Poets’ Quarterly,[9] Salamander,[10] Takahē,[11] Strange Horizons,[12] Poet Lore, Rattle,[13] Kestrel,[14] New Pages, Verse Wisconsin,[15] Yanaguana Literary Review,[16] Blackbird,[17] Mid-American Review, Calyx, Junctures, Prairie Schooner,[18] and other venues.