She received her PhD in gender, feminist & women's studies from York University. Her areas of interest include critical race and ethnic studies, Native American/Indigenous studies, film and cultural studies, and queer and feminist studies. Her book manuscript-in-progress-- Diasporic Cowboys: Cinematic Entanglements of Race and Settler Colonialism --deploys intersectional methods to track the fraught, ambiguous and contradictory presence of settler colonial discourses within diasporic westerns. The project attends to the complex imbrications of race, diaspora, Indigeneity and colonialism.