She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas. Her research on the intersections of national identity, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic class has been published in a handful of edited volumes, and appeared in the journals Antipodas, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Southwestern American Literature, Studies in American Indian Literature, Red Feather, Parlour, [inter]sections, The Watchung Review and, most recently, Postcolonial Interventions. Her first book, An Ethics of Reading, was published in 2015. [Read review]