Research areas in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Latin American Studies.
• Cuban literature, film, art, and culture• Exile and Diaspora Studies• Cultural memory: language, literature, oral history, identity, and the State in Latin America• Central American Studies• Poetry and Poetics of Cultural Resistance• Transnational and multilingual perspectives in terms of culture, migration, and cultural production under duress• Gender, Sexuality and the State• Brazilian Literary Production Abroad• Brazilian Cinema and World Cities (Rio and São Paulo)• Gender in Latin American Cinema• Contemporary Mexican Theatre• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Cultural History and History of Ideas• Latin American Cultural Theory• Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literary History and Cultural Criticism• Race and Culture in Nineteenth Century Latin American thought
• Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Drama• Comparative European Theatre