Her field of specialty is contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Professor Ballesteros has published extensively on Spanish and Latin American women writers, the image of women in the post-Franco literature, and Spanish and European film. She is the author of two books: Escritura femenina y discurso autobiográfico en la nueva novela española, (Letras Femeninas, 1994), and Cine (Ins)urgente: textos fílmicos y contextos culturales de la España postfranquista (Fundamentos, 2001). Her current book project is titled, ‘Undesirable’ Otherness and ‘Immigration Film’ in the European Union.