Her PhD is in Comparative Literature and she has an MA in Philosophy from SUNY Binghamton (2003). In 2014, Dr. Datema received a creative writing certificate for studies accomplished at the University of Cambridge in the UK. She is a published poet and has written articles on modernism, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Most recently, she co-edited the book Wretched Refuge: Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern. Her current book projects are entitled A Modernist Influenced Hard-Boiled Poetics and a work of creative non-fiction entitled Chapel Hell.