She has published articles on a variety of topics such as Christian-Muslim relations in the Mediterranean, women’s writing, and the Asian Spanish empire. In 2013, she published a book exploring Spanish captivity writings during the 16th and 17th centuries (Letras liberadas. Cautiverio, escritura y subjetividad en el de la época imperial española. Madrid: Visor Libros), and she is currently writing a monograph about the Philippines during Spanish colonial rule of the archipelago. She is also preparing a critical edition of the Libro de cassos impensados, by Alonso de Salamanca. Rodríguez-Rodríguez completed a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and is currently finishing a second Ph.D. at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She was Chair of the Faculty Assembly of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2016-2017. In 2015 she received the M.L. Huit Faculty Award.