She has published and lectured extensively on Latin American, Caribbean, Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic Literatures and Cultures; race, gender and sexuality in colonial and postcolonial societies; Latin American discourses in literature, ethnography and sociology. Professor Arroyo will read material from her coming book in which she focused on an analysis of global connections between Freemasons in the Spanish Caribbean and the United States and on Masonic conceptualizations of the word as technology, and its representation of race, global capital, and alternative communities.