She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California of San Diego in 2005 and was awarded a two-year Fellowship from the University of California Office of the President under the mentorship of Susan Gillman and George Lipsitz. She has published in the journals Dissidences: A Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism,Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal and has an article in African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries, a collection edited by Robert Cancel and Winifred Woodhull. She recently published The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others: A Global Perspective (Routledge Publishing, 2014).