She had a research scholarship at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio (1998) and was awarded a Fulbright fellowship at New York University (2000). She received her PhD in the theory of literature at the University of Bucharest in 2003 with a dissertation on the American literary canon. She has published essays and reviews on contemporary literature and popular culture, and she translated several books of fiction and non-fiction. In September 2003, she started her second PhD at Stanford University. At Stanford, she is also the translation editor of the poetry journal Mantis.