She completed her PhD in 2005 at McGill University in Montréal where she then held a postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities with the SSHRC-MCRI Making Publics project. Before coming to Alabama in 2009, she taught English and Women's Studies at Allegheny College. In 2013, she was Visiting Professor with the Groupe de recherche identités et cultures (GRIC) at Université du Havre in France. Her monograph, Shakespeare in Québec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation, was published in March 2014 by University of Toronto Press, and she is currently working on a bilingual, open-access database and critical anthology entitled Shakespeare au/in Québec.