She is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer Masters program, designed especially for high school English teachers. Her PhD is in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. In recent years her teaching, research, and publications have increasingly concerned Victorian, modern, and contemporary writings related to British imperialism and post-colonial writing, specifically South Asian and Irish. Her courses on these subjects at Wellesley and Bread Loaf include: Modern Indian Literature; Fiction of Empire and the Breakup of Empire, Modern Irish Literature, and Wit and Terror in Modern Irish Literature. These teaching interests also inform her most recent book, Dissenters and Mavericks: Writings about India in English, 1765-2000 along with articles and book reviews about a variety of related topics, including the increasing phenomenon of writers migrating between nations, languages, and social class.
