She earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. She specializes in Iberian studies, popular culture, working-class and social movements, gender studies and transatlantic studies. She has published her research in Spanish, English, Catalan and French in Hispanic Review, Hispanófila, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Catalan Review, Siglo Diecinueve, among others. Her first book manuscript Intellectual Philanthropy: the Seduction of the Masses is forthcoming at Purdue University Press. Some of her Op-Ed have appeared in newspapers such as Babelia (El País) and La Jornada.