After receiving her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she held a three-year postdoctoral position at Stanford University and a one-year visiting assistant professorship at Cornell University. Dr. Machosky’s research focuses on allegory with previous publications including Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature (Fordham University Press 2012) and an edited volume Thinking Allegory Otherwise (Stanford University Press 2010). Her current research applies allegory as a theory of reading, with a focus on post-contact and post-colonial literatures of Australia and Aotearoa.