She recently completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale (2011), and is working on a book manuscript (entitled Terms of Exchange) on the problem of language choice and ideology in the comparative literary histories of Indonesia, Egypt, and Senegal. Building on research materials in Arabic, French, Malay, and Wolof, her current book project addresses questions of script change (from Arabic to romanized forms), comparative legacies of devotional literature and sacralized language, and relationships between post-colonial literature, leftist transnationalism, and vernacular print-culture.