She earned her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her areas of scholarly interest include postcolonial and contemporary British literatures, cultural and media studies, and southern African literature and culture. Her current book project is entitled A New Kind of Safari: Tourism in Postcolonial Literature and Culture and her recent publications include an article on domestic tourism in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies (January 2007), an article on Bessie Head in Critical Essays on Bessie Head (Praeger-Greenwood, 2003), and an article on South African