Her work focuses on Victorian literature, gender and sexuality studies, and reading practices. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) where she completed a dissertation titled “Heavy Expectations: Reading Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel,” now a book manuscript – Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel. Her pedagogical research appears in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies; her literary criticism appears in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Victorian Network, a forthcoming issue of Women’s Writing, a forthcoming edited collection, Theorizing Syphilis and Subjectivity, and the Winter 2016 special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies on “Relations,” which she guest edited.