She holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto. Dr. Caufield has received a number of awards, including a post-doctoral fellowship in Religion and Latin American literature at the University of Toronto, a Foreign Government Award with the Government of Mexico, and a Killam Award at the University of Alberta. Her research areas of interest are Jewish Latin American fictional literature and hermeneutic literary theory. She has published numerous articles in referred journals, as well as the book Hermeneutical Approaches to Religious Discourse in Mexican Narrative with Peter Lang.