Prior to joining Centre's faculty in 2013, she was a visiting assistant professor at Haverford College from 2010 to 2013. She received her B.A. from the University of California—Santa Cruz, and her master's and Ph.D. from New York University. She teaches Greek and Latin language and literature, a wide range of courses on classical subjects, including Roman culture, representations of nature in classical antiquity, political thought in classical literature, and the reception of classical antiquity in film, and the first-year humanities sequence.