She is a scholar of transnational/global cinema and of the films of Pedro Almodóvar. Carla’s articles and essays have appeared in collected editions as well as in journals such as Social Text, Women and Performance and Cineaste. Her book, Global Melodrama: Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Cinema (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015) investigates how contemporary film melodrama helps map new temporal, spatial, and embodied territories in response to globalization.