I took up my current position as Lecturer in French Studies at the Australian National University in July 2012. For the previous two years, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Tulane University in New Orleans, USA. I received my PhD in French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2010. During my PhD, I spent two years in Paris, funded by a Bourse Chateaubriand and a fellowship from the UCLA Asia Institute. Prior to beginning my PhD, I lived in Vietnam for two years, and in addition to French, I speak Vietnamese and Khmer.

20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature and film (esp. Southeast Asia); gender, labour and migration; trauma and memory studies; fiction and ethnographic representation; immigrant writers and minority discourse, contemporary metafiction in French