She received her PhD in the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh, and her MA from American University. Her present areas of research include the history of gender and sexuality, surrealism, and Czech modernism 1890–1950. Recent publications include “Girl, Trampka, or Žába? The Czechoslovak New Woman,” in The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (University of Michigan Press, 2011); “Fire Smoulders in the Veins: Toyen’s Queer Desire and its Roots in Prague Surrealism,” in Papers of Surrealism issue 8 (Spring 2010); and “The Whole World Revolves around It: Sex Education and Sex Reform in First Republic Czech Print Media,” in Aspasia 4 (Spring 2010). Scholarly book projects underway include Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic and a study of gender and sexuality in interwar Czechoslovak visual culture.