She is affiliated faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, the Institute for LGBT Studies, Family Studies and Human Development, and Mexican American Studies. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include borderlands rhetorics, cultural and gender studies, social justice coalitions, movements, and media, as well as visual culture, community literacies, action research, and public scholarship. She is co-editor of Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Her book, Zines In Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric, was published from SUNY Press in October 2012.