Dr. Krummel earned her B.A. degree at University of Connecticut and her M.A. degree at Hunter College, City University of New York. She completed her Ph.D. at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The courses she teaches are informed by subjects important to women's studies, ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, and medieval literature. Dr. Krummel is also an avid traveler and has visited places as far away as New Zealand and as exciting as Israel. Now she often travels to the United Kingdom, where she researches medieval manuscripts housed in major research libraries.

As a child, Dr. Krummel was introduced to the Yiddish language, spoken by her grandmother, her grandmother's friends, and her mother. Dr. Krummel reasons that this early introduction to a foreign language sparked her interest in foreign languages and literatures from the Middle Ages to the present.