Her own writing has appeared or is forthcoming in three scholarly collections about modern literature and film, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Journal of Modern Literature, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies. She holds a PhD and an MA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MAT from City College CUNY, and a BA from Northwestern University. She is currently at work on her first monograph about imperial food politics and modernist literature.