She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and Ph.D. from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before joining John Jay in Fall 2007, she taught at Hunter College, Montclair State University, and the State University of New York/New Paltz. She specializes in Virginia Woolf, 20th Century British literature, and feminist theory. Her publications include articles on Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein. She is currently at work on a book on Virginia Woolf and the Classics.