She was awarded her PhD in literature from Durham University, UK in 2012. The title of her dissertation is "Redeeming the Betrayed Body: Technology and the Body in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo." Her interests are in technology and the body in literature and the medical humanities. She has a forthcoming article on Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slapstick'. She has presented papers on Pynchon in several venues included the American Literature Association Conference in Boston and Washington D.C. and the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in Harvard University. She also gave a paper titled "'A 'Postmodern' Phenomenology: Don DeLillo and Medicine'" Oxford University's TORCH center Phenomenology and Health inaugural conference.