She holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles; an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and a PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy, and Art (Lund Humphries, London and Turner, Madrid, 2004), and has published essays in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (Manchester University 2017), Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous (Routledge, 2017), Unpacking: The Marciano Collection (Prestel, 2017), Jim Amaral (Colombia, 2016), and Agustin Fernandez (Paris, 2012). She has contributed journal articles to Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies, Black Mirror, Journal of Surrealism in the Americas, and Nierika: Revista de Estudios de Arte, among others. She is currently working on a book titled Channeled Visions.