She received her M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. in Literature from The Graduate Center at CUNY. Her first book, “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, was published by Columbia University Press in 2016. In addition to her academic work, she frequently publishes essays and reviews about comics, memoir, and literature in publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Forward, the Guardian, and Cleaver Magazine, where she is the graphic narratives reviews editor.