She has published numerous articles on contemporary Spanish American literature, Caribbean, and Brazilian literature, as well as on the writings of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Dr. Cuervo Hewitt is the author of Aché. Tradiciones Yoruba-Lucumí en la narrative cubana, and she is working on two other books, Elogio de la locura. Mario Vargas Llosa, lector de Euclides da Cunha, and Becoming Iyaré Yemayá.