She teaches and studies the Early Modern World, with a special attention to the theory, practice and displaying of the arts in the context of the Iberian expansion. She is the author of The Untranlsatable Image. A Mestizo History of the Arts in New Spain, 1500-1600 (2014), El realismo circular. Tierras, espacios y paisajes de la cartografía novohispana (2005) and co-editor of Images Take Flight. Feather Art in Mexico and Europe, 1300-1700 (forthcoming). She has participated in the curatorship of the international exhibitions El vuelo de las imágenes and Planète métisse, and has been the recipient of several grants, including the Getty Collaborative Research Grant and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin's fellowship. Her new book manuscript is entitled A New Antiquity. Theories of the Arts and Iberian Expansion, 1400-1600.