She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Her articles and book chapters have been published in About Performance, EPW, e-misferica, Women and Performance, and Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory, and the Global, edited by André Lepecki and Jenn Joy (Seagull, 2009).With Violaine Roussel, she served as co-editor of How to Do Politics with Art (Routledge, 2016). She has trained in Odissi, a South Asian classical dance; her monograph on the form is forthcoming from Seagull Books.