She founded and coordinates Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica (GIECO) and was President of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment from 2010 to 2012. She is the General Editor of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment. Her research is focused on ecocriticism, ecofeminism, environmental justice, and sense of place, mostly in American contemporary ethnic literature as well as contemporary Spanish literature.