She received her Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she held the Rhoda Thalhimer Research Assistantship. Her scholarship examines the interplay of language and images in late twentieth-century art, with particular focus on John Baldessari and Felix Gonzales-Torres. In addition to presenting conference papers, she recently co-chaired the Southeastern College Art Association conference panel "Art of Exchange." Additionally, she held a curatorial assistantship at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She is currently working on an analysis of John Baldessari's Blasted Allegories.