Research and instruction areas include:

• German
  • Austrian, German, and Central European cinema
  • German and Austrian literature
  • Culture of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
  • The Baroque and Neo-Baroques
  • European popular culture
  • Propaganda film
  • Fascisms
  • Post-Soviet Central Europe and postmodernism
• Spanish
  • Latin American Cultural production in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
  • Contemporary Latin American Visual Arts
  • Spanish Colonial history of the American Southwest
  • Translation Studies
  • Digital Humanities