In 2000, she received her Ph.D. from Fordham University, where she specialized in twentieth century literature and critical theory. She has published articles on late modernist fiction in Criticism and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Her book, Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers will be published in early November 2005. Her interests also include disability studies, performance studies, writing pedagogy, and creative writing.