She holds joint appointments in the Department of English and the Program for Latin American and Latino Studies. Her research and teaching interests include Latin@ American literary and cultural studies as well as Modern/Contemporary American Literary and Cultural Studies with a specific focus on Central American cultural production. She is the author of Changing Women, Changing Nation: Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives (SUNY 2012) and has published articles in Latin American Perspectives, Latino Studies, the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Currently, she is working on a new project on the politics of Central American “belonging” and “non-belonging” in the United States.