She holds a BA and MA in Comparative Literary Studies from Utrecht University, and attained her doctorate from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She was part of the second cohort of Oxford Europaeum Scholars, and a Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Doctoral Intern at the National Trust for Scotland (NTS). She also writes articles and short stories, and is one of the co-founders of Chaos Publishers, now an imprint of Das Mag Publishers.