Her research interests include modern European art and theory with an emphasis on French painting; relationships between art, literature, and colonialism; and art as multi-cultural exchange. She earned her Ph.D. at Rice University in 2015 and her dissertation, Disorienting Forms: Jean Dubuffet, Portraiture, Ethnography, was supported by a number of stellar faculty and prestigious research grants. She has published informative essays on Dubuffet and other modern artists, has a forthcoming anthology chapter titled “Double Take: Jean Dubuffet’s portrait of Antonin Artaud and the Balinese Theater,” and is currently writing a book titled Jean Dubuffet, Bricoleur: Portraits, Pastiche, Performativity.