Research and instruction areas include:

• Spanish
  • Latin American Cultural production in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
  • Contemporary Latin American Visual Arts
  • Indigenous Art from Central and South America
  • Spanish Colonial history of the American Southwest
  • Translation Studies
  • Digital Humanities 
  • US-Mexico Border Studies
  • Mexican Detective Short Stories
  • The Mexicali-Calexico Border as Tabloid Californian Press in the Early Twentieth Century