She received her PhD in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. While at Pittsburgh, she received an Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Her book, Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images, published in 2013, explores the relationships between cultural notions of childhood, memory, intertextuality, and the intergenerational. Her research interests include children’s literature and media, 20th-century American literature, trauma theory, and religion and literature. (bio from the University of Florida website: