She was previously in the department of French at the University of Geneva. She received her Ph.D. in French from Columbia University in 2005. Last year she was on sabbatical, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and is expected to receive her Doctorat-ès-Lettres from the University of Geneva this fall. Her research interests include 17th- and 18th-century French literature, cultural history and historiography; literature and aesthetics in early modern France; literary theory, the novel, autobiography and women’s studies. She was awarded the John H. O’Neill Prize by the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.