She teaches courses on contemporary Latina/o and Chicana/o cultural production, modern Spanish American literature, and gender studies /queer studies. She has a special interest in women's experiences in Cuba. Her publications include one book, The Ties That Bind: Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and Film (University Press of America, 2004). < http://www.csuchico.edu/~scooper> Sarah M. Pike