She received her Bachelor’s of Arts at Willamette University, her Master’s degree at the American University of Cairo and her Ph.D. at Georgetown University. Her latest article “Ali al-Du‘aji and al-‘alam al-adabi: a voice of the Tunisian avant-garde under colonial rule (1930-1936)”appeared in the Journal of North African Studies (April 2016). She has published “New national discourses: Tunisian women write the revolution” in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Issue 35, 2015) and has a forthcoming article in The Journal of African Literature Association in fall 2016 titled “When a Whisper Becomes a Scream: Tunisian Oral Culture in a Postcolonial Woman’s Novel.” She is working on a monograph concerning the making of the modern Tunisian man in women’s texts.