She received her B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Fordham University (New York, NY). Her first book, Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature (Bucknell UP, 2017), examines the development of the travel genre alongside shifts in eighteenth-century epistemology. Her work has appeared in such journals as Configurations, Eighteenth-Century Life, and Studies in the Novel, and has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Institute, Chawton House Library, and the Singapore Ministry of Education. She is currently President of the Southeast Asian Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (SASECS).