Louise has a Masters degree in German Studies from the University of Montréal as part of which she wrote a dissertation on Robert Musil's Nachlass zu Lebzeiten.
She then taught German in Montréal and Québec City before moving to Greece and later to Australia where she completed a Graduate Diploma in Information and Library Studies at Curtin University (2007). She joined the UWA Library as casual librarian in 2009. She has since been working at the Reid and Music Library, as well as in Special Collections and Archives.

Tutor in German language, McGill University

Lecturer in German Studies at l'Université de Montréal, Université Laval and the Goethe Institut (Montréal),

Tour guide, Dodecanese, Greece

Librarian, State Library of Western Australia

Academic librarianship,

Literature