In 2007, she received her Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her A.B.D. in early modern Spanish literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and expects to complete her Ph.D. next fall. She also received her M.A. in Hispanic literatures from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1997, and her B.A. in Hispanic philology from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in 1995.