She received her B.A. from Université de Haute-Alsace in France. She then moved to the United States and earned her Masters in French studies from Saint Louis University. She received a Ph.D. in French with a secondary concentration in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research foci include Francophone literature and film of the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, colonial and postcolonial literatures, and contemporary transnational cultures. Part of her research also centers on pedagogy and diversity and inclusion in the foreign language classroom that she has shared in several department teaching workshops and college-wide events such as “A Day of Dialogue: Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom.”