She received her doctorate in Buddhist Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her recent work includes “Adapting the Buddha’s Biographies: A Cultural History of the Wish-Fulfilling Vine in Tibet, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries” (Ph.D. diss., 2011) and “Döndrup Gyel and the Remaking of the Tibetan Ramayana,” in Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (2008). Her current research focuses on intersections of monastic and courtly culture in Tibet, particularly through Buddhist hagiographical literature and art. Nancy has contributed an article to Issue 7.