She has a B.A. from SUNY at Buffalo Honors College in English and Russian, an M.A. from the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Comparative Literary Studies, with an emphasis in English, Russian, and Classics. Cambridge University Press published her first book, Modernism and Homer, in 2015. She is currently working on a new book, James Joyce and Classical Modernism, which is under advance contract with Bloomsbury Press. She enjoys teaching a range of classes in, among other things, the Western literary tradition, twentieth-century literature, Irish literature, and Russian literature.