Her research interests include Latin American women writers; women and gender studies; avant-garde literature; gender and modernity; representations of Hispanics in popular culture, and language acquisition through literature. As a University citizen, she works to support diversity and multiculturalism and has presented in the Diversity Dialogues on immigration and DACA. She particularly supports international students who work as tutors in the Foreign Languages Lab. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and received awards in teaching and writing. She regularly presents papers in conferences, both domestically and abroad.