She has taught and researched at Princeton, Stanford, University of Hong Kong, and Venice International University. She is the author of six books and numerous articles on subjects such as narrative theory, posthumanism, science fiction, Dickens, and Victorian culture. As a fiction writer, she has published more than 40 fantasy and science fiction stories in New Horizons, The Fantasist, Timeless Tales, The Singularity, New Realms, Alien Dimensions, and many other magazines; and in several anthologies, including People of the Book, Ink Stains, and Apex Book of World Science Fiction. Her fantasy novel A Tale of Three Cities came out in 2013. Her standalone novella “Dreaming the Dark” was published in 2017, and two more novels are scheduled to be out this year.