Her research areas include: Latin American and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures, Hemispheric Studies, and Transnational Queer Popular Culture. Her forthcoming article "Publicando el placer: los gestos queer en la música y el performance de Kumbia Queers y Krudas Cubensi" addresses the tendency in gay-rights activism to emphasize tropes of "struggling" and "fighting" for rights and thus de-centers the pleasure and joy also located in sexual and gender expression. Her current projects include an article examining representations in film and literature of the relationship of American potty Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares and an in-progress manuscript on the travels of "queer" as an identity and theoretical category in Latin American popular culture. Contact Information