Her areas of interest include contemporary Latin American literature and political theory; memory and human rights studies; social movements; 1968 studies; Latin American Marxism; contemporary feminist practices; and prison writing. She is the author of Ciudad posletrada y tiempos lúmpenes: crítica cultural y nihilismo en la cultura de fin de siglo and Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America; Constellations of 1968 Mexico: experiments in freedom and democracy (under contract with Duke University Press) and México 1968: experimentos de la libertad, constelaciones de la democracia (under contract with Siglo XXI editores).