As an associate professor in the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University, I write, research, and teach, in English and French. I studied at Cambridge University as an undergraduate student in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, and wrote my undergraduate thesis on silence in the works of Albert Camus. During that time I became interested in medieval languages and literatures, especially Old French and Occitan, and decided to continue my studies at the University of Warwick. After completing an MA, I moved to Canada to pursue a PhD at the University of Toronto as a Commonwealth Scholar. During my years of study at the University of Toronto, I was introduced to interdisciplinary research in literature, psychology and philosophy, which shaped my continuing research interests in the NeuroHumanities.