She received her BA from Columbia University and her PhD from Harvard University. During the 2014-2015 academic year, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica. She is currently working on a book project tentatively titled Commercial Acts: Money, Merchants, and Markets in Late Imperial Chinese Drama. In June 2016, her article “Precious Bodies: Money Transformation Tales from Medieval to Late Imperial China” will appear in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.