She has previously worked as a lecturer in English Literature and Drama at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and Lecturer and Academic Coordinator on the MA in Festive Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. She recently completed a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway on the representation of ageing women in Post Celtic Tiger Literature. Her research interests include World Literature, Postmodernism, Murakami, Irish Studies, Drama and Theatre Studies and Feminism. She worked professionally as a journalist for a number of years. She has two edited collections on Irish literature due for publication in Summer 2018.