She holds a PhD in English from Duke University. Her research focuses on contemporary American literature and culture, social and environmental justice, and science fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, Women’s Studies Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books. Her current book project identifies structural violence as a defining but representationally challenging feature of contemporary life that has shaped the form, style, and content of American literature and activism since the 1960s. A second project examines the role that speculative genres play in articulating environmental citizenship in the context of climate change and the global climate justice movement.