She is the author of Death, Men and Modernism (Routledge, 2003) and has a PhD in English Literature from NYU. She has published widely on literary modernism, and in the last few years has begun to publish on comics in The Journal of Modern Literature and Literature Compass and to present in forums including the “Graphic Details Symposium” (New York, 2012) and “Comics and Medicine: Navigating the Margins” (Toronto, 2012). She currently holds a SSHRC Insight Development Grant on “Charlotte Salomon, Comics and the Representation of Pain” (2013-2015) and is actively seeking cartoonists and picture-story artists whose work is influenced by Salomon. Her essays on Salomon are forthcoming in the Graphic Details anthology (2014) and in the journal Criticism (2014).