Research Areas
- Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies
- Migration and Border Studies
- Gender Studies
- Women Writers
- Testimonial Genres
- Translation Studies
- Literary Publishing
Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first centuries Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean studies, cultural studies, migration studies, and gender theory.
Through her research and teaching, she investigates the Western concept of the body within the context of violence and forced displacement in Latin American and Latinx writers, artists and communities. Her interdisciplinary study draws from contemporary discussions on borderlands theory, gender studies, human mobility, testimonial genres and visual art and literary theory in relation to migration, trauma and memory.
