Emma is a postdoctoral fellow on "The Challenge of Reconciliation: What We Can Learn From Stories of the Mohawk Institute Residential School and the Hamilton Mountain Sanatorium," supervised by Dr. Vanessa Watts in the Departments of Sociology and Indigenous Studies.

Emma recently completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Criminology (May 2020- April 2022), and an Honorary Killam postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta in the Department of English and Film Studies (June 2020-May 2022). Emma earned her PhD in English and Cultural Studies (2019) from McMaster University, and her MA and Honours BA in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, respectively.

Emma's research interests include critical feminisms, intersectionality, second wave feminist history, archival studies, sexuality studies, labour studies, disability studies, and life writing in memoir and poetry. Emma is currently researching and writing a book, Collective Survival: Women's Anti-Violence Organizing in Toronto, 1973-1993.