She earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University, an M.St. in English (1900-present day) from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Her research focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary Anglophone writing and trauma studies, examining the ways in which literary production in former British colonies has responded to a legacy of colonial violence and loss. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript based on her Ph.D. dissertation, tentatively called Original Skin: Melancholy Returns, Postcolonial Mourning. She plans to write about pedagogy and forms of commemoration.