She received her doctorate in 2013 from the University of Texas at Austin with a dissertation titled Picturing the Cosmos: Surrealism and Astronomy, 1920s-1940s. Recently, she was a contributing author to the catalog Paper in Profile: Mixografia and Taller de Grafica Mexicana for the Georgia Museum of Art. Her current research interests include the intersections of twentieth century art with popular science and occultism, modern art and food cultures, as well as pedagogy practices in art history.