Having graduated from New York University (NYU) studing East Asian Studies, her focus is in Modern Chinese literature and culture, Asian cinema, critical theory, aesthetics, biopolitics. Her current research focuses on the issue of biopolitics in modern Chinese culture. Drawing upon the interpretative frameworks of biopolitics and correlative thinking, she explores the dynamic space between biological life and cultural production that is presented in a broad range of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film and art.