She received her PhD from Duke University in 2004 and her Master’s in French from Ohio University in 1998. She has published essays on Breton writers and French regionalism. She has done research on the theme of visibility of Muslim women in Francophone novels and wrote articles on Algerian literature and Franco-Algerian authors (Mokeddem, Bouraoui and Benmalek). She is also interested in French Canadian literature and cinema. She teaches 19th and 20th French and Francophone Literature, French Cinema, Contemporary French Civilization and Culture and French language here at Randolph-Macon College. Each year, she also organizes and teaches a January term study-abroad class in Paris. She is also the Advisor of the French Honorary Society.