She is also the editor of the journal Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature. Her studies of the constructions of gender and disability in Latin American literature have appeared in journals such as Hispanic Review, Luso-Brazilian Review, and Hispania. Currently, she is completing a bilingual anthology of five film screenplays by Mexican women writers. She has been using service-learning in her Spanish-language teaching since 2007, and her current translation service-learning initiative is supported by a 2013-2014 Kansas Campus Compact Engaged Faculty Fellowship. She is an ATA-certified Spanish>English translator.