She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University and is the author of Surveying the Avant-Garde: Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines, forthcoming from Penn State University Press. She has taught at Brandeis University, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art and has published in Artforum, Cabinet, The Journal of Art Historiography, The Journal of Surrealism and the Americas and The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. She also co-organizes the Global Modernisms Group at the NYU Center for the Humanities.